Have been unwell (cold) so back on now and lots of spiders, Hertfordshire Horrors we call them. I had a shower with one on Friday last. I stood there starkers and this great lump of a spider was crawling down the corner of the shower. Every time a sprinkle of water hit it it shot a few inches either way. I kept my eye on it while I cautiously washed my bits and pieces and when I was about to jump out of the shower it dropped down behind the shampoos etc. I was not going to hunt for it in the nude so left it with a spider 'ladder', my beautiful new bath towel draped over the edge of the bath. (overhead bath shower) The next day no spider to be seen. The day after it appeared in the bath. I used my neighbour's trick (the wincyette lady who calls my DH out in the middle of the night to get a dead HH from under a David Attenborough tome - remember) She does this with small spiders not worthy of my DH's attention. She takes a length of loo paper and picks the offending creature up and deposits it out of the bathroom window. I unravelled a length of loo paper, opened the bathroom window, grabbed the arachnid in the Sainsbury's Softest Toilet Paper and threw the lot out of the window, hey presto it appeared again, dropping into the sink, I grabbed it again and threw the wind again blew it back in. This happened three times in all. In desperation I picked the loo paper complete with parachuting spider and dropped it as low down as I could and it sailed away. The next night its big sister appeared next to my bed on the floor, I had trotted out of the bedroom to go to the loo and came back to see a suspicious black shape (large black shape) next to my bed. I put the bedside light on and it was another. I peered closer and it started to raise up on all -fours- eights, bobbing up and down in all I can describe as a threatening manner. I threw a pillow at the snoring DH who fell out of bed in shock mumbling something about backing the winner (he doesn't even bet) We managed to 'rescue' the animal and dropped it out of the bedroom window. Low and behold last night I was sitting peacefully watching a thriller on TV when another damn thing came scuttling across the lounge carpet and hid under my fan. I am thinking of setting up a hostel for homeless spiders to overwinter. Luckily I am not phobic about them but still..........