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Old 2nd June 2020, 20:39   #21
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When I wrote it up on another forum, I had cheap smart Alec comments: did I apply a tourniquet, did my wife not suck out the poison?.....having a sense of humour is must
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Old 5th June 2020, 22:07   #22
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After all of that you are still incredibly kind to the critters ???????


My thoughts exactly, I would have obliterated the b' stard. These things do not deserve to exist.
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Old 5th June 2020, 22:23   #23
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My thoughts exactly, I would have obliterated the b' stard. These things do not deserve to exist.
Spiders keep the flies at bay (in our climate anyway).

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My oldest lad was bit on the leg by a false widow at work a couple of years ago, it took about 10 days to settle and was quite uncomfortable. I m of the Hoover or hammer brigade when it comes to spiders, about 15 years ago we lived in a thatched cottage and would always have problems with mice and occasionally rats, one evening in the middle of winter we had the open fire burning away whilst watching TV and out of the corner of my eye something moved on the rug, I kept watching and seen it again. At first I thought it was a mouse but on closer inspection it was a huge spider, straight away i picked up a video cassette in its case ( yes I know but it was 15 years ago and we still used them ) and dropped it on to the spider, NAUGHTY WORD me the case pinned it down but was at a 45°(exaggeration) angle so i picked up the companion set shovel from the fireplace and as soon as I lifted the video case the NAUGHTY WORD shot off with me after it , 2 swipes later and it was no more, never seen a spider as big before or since then and I've been around a lot of barns on a farm my lad worked on.
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My oldest lad was bit on the leg by a false widow at work a couple of years ago, it took about 10 days to settle and was quite uncomfortable. I m of the Hoover or hammer brigade when it comes to spiders, about 15 years ago we lived in a thatched cottage and would always have problems with mice and occasionally rats, one evening in the middle of winter we had the open fire burning away whilst watching TV and out of the corner of my eye something moved on the rug, I kept watching and seen it again. At first I thought it was a mouse but on closer inspection it was a huge spider, straight away i picked up a video cassette in its case ( yes I know but it was 15 years ago and we still used them ) and dropped it on to the spider, NAUGHTY WORD me the case pinned it down but was at a 45°(exaggeration) angle so i picked up the companion set shovel from the fireplace and as soon as I lifted the video case the NAUGHTY WORD shot off with me after it , 2 swipes later and it was no more, never seen a spider as big before or since then and I've been around a lot of barns on a farm my lad worked on.
for future reference, 'tread' carefully on how you deal with spiders mwah ha ha ha.
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I remember eating lunch whilst cycle touring in south OZ, in a small old wooden bus shelter, when on looking behind my wife, I saw loads of webs. I then turned around and looked just behind my head and saw my first redback. It never moved so was no threat. On cycling out of the small town we noticed a banner over the entrance to a sports complex that named the local team ‘redbacks’.
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I often take a cup of milk up to bed with me and place it on my bedside table, so if I wake, and have a dry mouth, I can have a sip.
One morning, I reached for the cup, and put it to my lips to have a drink.
Instead of the liquid I was expecting, I got a mouthful of a bulbous body and a lot of legs. It had climbed into the cup while I slept. I spat it out in an absolute panic, I suppose the spider got a fright too, it was off at top speed over the duvet.
I can safely say, I got the fright of my life. I always, always cover the top of the cup now.
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I often take a cup of milk up to bed with me and place it on my bedside table, so if I wake, and have a dry mouth, I can have a sip.
One morning, I reached for the cup, and put it to my lips to have a drink.
Instead of the liquid I was expecting, I got a mouthful of a bulbous body and a lot of legs. It had climbed into the cup while I slept. I spat it out in an absolute panic, I suppose the spider got a fright too, it was off at top speed over the duvet.
I can safely say, I got the fright of my life. I always, always cover the top of the cup now.
I woke up one night with something in my mouth, spat it out and it was a small one, jumpex out of bed, grabbed a shoe, WALLOP!! End of
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Well thanks for the stories: I had heard of people getting spiders in their mouthes but never heard first hand, yuk!
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Well thanks for the stories: I had heard of people getting spiders in their mouthes but never heard first hand, yuk!
Morning Fred, I have never heard of a spider in someone’s mouth, that’s a new one. The worst thing I have had in my gob, are maggots.

I was eating a mango for breakfast and the maggots were the same colour as the inside of the mango and I am fairly certain I swallowed them before I noticed a funny taste.

Do check your mangoes
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