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Last Post 26-08-2011 11:45 AM by Vicky Ford. 26 Replies.

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LesleyG
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25-08-2011 12:08 PM	�
It's that time of year again.....SPIDER TIME......usually starts about September but I have got some visitors now, just seen a large one! As I sort of live in a field the spiders come in 3 sizes.... Large... OMG thats flipping big! and Abandon Ship.....this one is a man eater!!!!!

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25-08-2011 12:17 PM	�
I know them all, far to well! Had one come visit yesterday, just as we were going to bed. I was already lying down in bed, when my other half to be picked up his pillow to give it a good "Puffing up"... he just looked at me and went "Hunny, get out of bed" and I FLEW! Just behind me was a giant, and I am an arachnofobiac.... Didnt get quite the early night expected, it ended with a large whiskymac in the sofa instead, to calm nerves before second attempt of sleep! NASTY BUGGERS.... I dont like 'em much, this will be a looooooong autumn

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25-08-2011 12:17 PM	�
Do the parrots eat them?

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25-08-2011 12:19 PM	�
yep & bloomin cobwebs when i go through me gate in the morning!! UGH.x

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25-08-2011 12:22 PM	�
I have a lovley huge spider in here, but I haven't got a parrot to eat it yet. Better fatten it up ready then. I do have a tarantula so I will have to keep that away from a parrot when I get one.

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25-08-2011 12:24 PM	�
ohh yuky my son has a tarantula, oh i just shivered typing that! lol.x

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25-08-2011 12:39 PM	�
and why is it that when I lie in bed a spider will walk all the way across the ceiling and stop right above my head? All that space but no...it has to stop above me!!

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25-08-2011 12:43 PM	�
I get hubbie to clear them of the ceiling, they are not going to sneak into my mouth or ear! lolx

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25-08-2011 01:16 PM	�
I have been having devious thoughts of getting a load of rubber spiders and hiding them in every nook and cranny at work as my boss is PETRIFIED of them and it would give me enormous pleasure to watch the sheer terror on her face when she finds them thinking they are real pmsl

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25-08-2011 01:31 PM	�
I don't like them either. In fact up to abour 10 years ago I could'nt even stand 'money spiders'. However, once in Oz I had no choice but to take a few deep breaths. We have had them as big as your hand, in the kitchen. We had one with only 7 legs nick named him George. He was ok while he lived behind the picture in the lounge but one day he came out and had 8 legs. Now I'm not saying that spiders can regrow legs cos don't know but it went in with 7 and came out with 8. So long as they wern't in the bedroom I managed to cope. Mind you the hand sized one gave me the shakes lol

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25-08-2011 01:50 PM	�
apparently spiders like to come to you in bed and they drink from the corner of your mouth. sorry !

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25-08-2011 02:02 PM	�
thanks for that invaluable piece of information Jonesy. I don't think I will go to sleep tonight now ugh

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25-08-2011 02:39 PM	�
Posted By jonesy on 25-08-2011 02:50 PM apparently spiders like to come to you in bed and they drink from the corner of your mouth. sorry ! pours herself a huge G&T This is going to be a looooong night..

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25-08-2011 09:47 PM	�
Tina, thats is wicked but did make me smile , Gillie i wouldnt have got close enough to count his legs! lol, jonesy am i pleased i didnt see that before i went to bed last night!!!! I will be thinking that every time i see one now! thats enough to give me nightmares!! x

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26-08-2011 12:30 AM	�
Ok.....so today I will purchase some face masks to stop the spiders 'sipping my saliva' whilst I sleep!!!!

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26-08-2011 12:31 AM	�
I am sorry for letting you know that piece of information I know how you feel as I do not really like snakes, was attacked by an adder when I was 9. My son told me that he wants a snake but I have told him that when he moves into his own house I will get him one, but not in this house as I would be worried, and we have enough animals anyway. At 4am that night I woke up and screamed, my husband tells me. The dream was this snake climbing up and sitting on my shoulder I was thinking about parrots before I went to bed so that must be why it was on my shoulder

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26-08-2011 12:46 AM

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ha ha ha
This baby was inside my jacket, i felt it crawl up my neck at work bless him, then his mate fell out to which he ate as he was obviously hacked off

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26-08-2011 02:40 AM	�
slaping myself all over now, yuk yuk yuk,x

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26-08-2011 03:14 AM	�
Oh you have given me a giggle - we lived out in the sticks when I was younger and my dad refused to let me kill spiders - said they were randy males looking for mates and were all called FRED. Just as well now as my hubby hates all things creepy crawlie and frogs for some reason - he screams like a girl - then I have to remove said beastie. Between us I hope the children are getting a proper balance of how to treat them- mind you knowing my luck Chelsea will man up - like me and deal with them and michael will follow his dad and run around screaming like a girl ha ha.

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26-08-2011 03:24 AM	�
I know how you feel, although I lived in \oz and had the little blighters everywhere in my opinion the only good spider is a dead one. Sue, you didnt need to get close to George to count his legs. He was a Huntsman, they are of the tarantula group but not hairy likes those horrible things. t was the little ones that you had to beware of. The red back and the white tail. I had a spider run across the floor last night and even knowing that they are not venomous like most of the Ozzy ones I went over all queer. sort of shivvery inside and polaxed on the outside. I am ok if they just dont move lol

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