Arschnophobes beware!!!!!

Oh MissAdventure
I’ve just come across this, I really feel your pain, I don’t know how I would be able to live on my own at this time of year.

I really don’t know what the answer is, I can’t get anywhere near them, I’ve got those electric gadgets all over the house, rubbish!

We had one in the week, imagine me and two of my granddaughters clutching each other screaming, the youngest one thought it was a great game, and just kept running through the house screaming her little head off.

We had to drag someone, the closest person to us, in the next village, out of a Zoom meeting to deal with it.

By the way, I’m not proud of the fact that I’ve taught two generations of children to be terrified, but it’s beyond my control.

Please go and find a brave person before to deal with it.

Ah I know the kind of spider catcher you mean, grannynannywanny
I've had many, over the years.

Just for you MissA:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD_WvcLi95I

Perhaps your neighbour could remove it from the trap?

I know exactly what you mean, sara1954.
My daughter was terrified,
She would jump up and down and scream and run around the garden every time she went into my mums shed.
My grandsons are afraid of them, but a little better than me.
My mum was afraid, but learnt to deal with spiders, and I am afraid too.

When is your neighbour likely to be up?

Thanks, growstuff
That spider in the video looks too realistic when its prowling around.
Makes me shudder!

I guess at least if it’s in the bath it can’t get out, nothing worse than one that disappears, not much help if you need the loo though.

Neighbour has said she is having a lie in today.
She was going to take 2 sleepers, as she has had a stressful week with the council doing her a new kitchen.

She has been beside herself because it has made a mess and so on, and she can't cope.

Who am I to mock, when I cant cope with a blooming spider, now I come to think of it.

Put a wide cup or vase over it slide a piece of cardboard under it and carry it outside

MissAdventure
You are supremely brave just remaining in your flat.
I would have been an absolute wreck by now.
Don’t you have another neighbor?

It's been an eventful night, one way and another.
I went to put some rubbish out (the bamanas) and a dog went for me on my own backdoor step.
It was terrorising a cat, who was hiding on my doorstep and had pooped everywhere, and they were being watched closely by a fox, who had kindly marked his territory by scattering all runny poop around my step.

My next door neighbour is off work sick with a bad back and resting.
The lady opposite died a few weeks back, and the woman above me works shifts as a paramedic.
That leaves just fanny fernackerpan, and a couple that I don't like in the block.

Try to find something large and plastic to 'drop' over the top of it, then leave it till someone can help you, large so you are less likely to miss the spider, and plastic so you don't damage the bath when you drop it.

I'm sure the neighbour will be up soon, as she is really unsettled and looks quite poorly due to the week she's had.
I don't think she will be able to lie in, even though she wants to.

MissAdventure

Thanks, growstuff
That spider in the video looks too realistic when its prowling around.
Makes me shudder!

But they end up being best of friends!

I have a washing up bowl, an old one, oldnproud

It's the most obvious thing, why didn't I think of that?

Well there is only one answer - set fire to the house !

Oh, because my neighbour will kill it, regardless of anything I say.

Don’t kill the spider MissA. It’s stuck on the bath and can’t get out.
I do the tissue thing Fanny mentioned but usually use the glass over the spider sliding paper underneath and taking outside.
However is you are really scared of them you might try and wash him down the plug hole.
He might climb back up though. [

MissAdventure

I have a washing up bowl, an old one, oldnproud

It's the most obvious thing, why didn't I think of that?

It sounds perfect, but drop it lengthways not widthways (assuming it is not round or square), so all its sides should touch the bottom of the bath. Otherwise, you will just be giving the spider a roof

I am so glad I don't have this phobia. I'm not quite as chilled out with wriggly things, though.

Yep.
I'm going to have to burn the flat down, there is nothing else for it.

I think it's safe to say a spider will never be in my friends list, growstuff
Particularly one with bubbly bits, and knee joints.
No sir-ee!!!

Right I'm going in now, with that bowl.
Just to make the area safe, for now.