Oooooh,it's scary spidertime...

[IDMark2]

This guy was planning to have a pretty relaxed weekend I thought...

but then I realised it was probably a butterfly and not what I first thought.

 

[Archie_tect]

Can you buy spider matches?

 

[Chromatic]

...but oddly, you haven't said what was her response.

No response, she had her mouth full at the time.

 

[Beebo]

Can you buy spider matches?

I think swans have cornered the market.

 

[IDMark2]

If it is a spliff and he gets the munchies after...? *shudder*

I won't be going into the garden alone after that thought...

 

[Panter]

Had to evict a huge one from the front room only yesterday. I actually thought it was a mouse to start with as it thundered across the carpet until realising it was just too big to be a mouse

When I say "evict," I actually mean "waited for the Wife to evict" whilst I pranced around on the settee screaming in terror

 

[AndyRM]

Apparently spiders stay away from chestnuts....but sadly mice like them..

My mum is quite scared of spiders and had heard the same, so festooned windowsills and door frames with chestnuts.

After I'd stopped laughing, I pointed out a rather large spider sat on top of one in the kitchen.

The next time I visited there were no more chestnuts.

 

[Bobby Mhor]

My mum is quite scared of spiders and had heard the same, so festooned windowsills and door frames with chestnuts.

After I'd stopped laughing, I pointed out a rather large spider sat on top of one in the kitchen.

The next time I visited there were no more chestnuts.

Bloody 'Metro' telling me porkies, who would have thought any paper would lie to you.

 

[Chromatic]

My mum is quite scared of spiders and had heard the same, so festooned windowsills and door frames with chestnuts.

After I'd stopped laughing, I pointed out a rather large spider sat on top of one in the kitchen.

The next time I visited there were no more chestnuts.

Did she pierce the chestnuts? You have to do that for it to work apparently, it's no good good putting your unpierced conkers on the window sill.

 

[Ganymede]

Did she pierce the chestnuts? You have to do that for it to work apparently, it's no good good putting your unpierced conkers on the window sill.

I think it works, from my own experience - but yes the mice love them. I might try stringing a few conkers and hanging them in corners - the mice wouldn't get them then!

 

[Chromatic]

I think it works, from my own experience - but yes the mice love them. I might try stringing a few conkers and hanging them in corners - the mice wouldn't get them then!

To get rid of spiders you end up attracting mice eh? You need a cat in that case. Someone should write a song about this.

 

[AndyRM]

Did she pierce the chestnuts? You have to do that for it to work apparently, it's no good good putting your unpierced conkers on the window sill.

Paging @Fnaar...

She did not, and my parents have since moved to an old farmhouse in the North Yorkshire countryside. I suspect even a pierced conker would probably be eaten by the spiders out there, probably as the beast giggled and flicked the V's.

 

[IDMark2]

My mum is quite scared of spiders and had heard the same, so festooned windowsills and door frames with chestnuts.

After I'd stopped laughing, I pointed out a rather large spider sat on top of one in the kitchen.

The next time I visited there were no more chestnuts.

So the spider ate them all? Wow.

 

[rich p]

I just want to point out that I'm a brave little soldier about everything else apart from spiders.

 

[theclaud]

I just want to point out that I'm a brave little soldier about everything else apart from spiders.

Ahem.

Cough.