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I was in the kitchen chatting to shelley,when she stopped and stared right over my shoulder:-2 and with that she got a fork yes a fork hit off my shoulder a bloody huge spider:eek::eek:

God that made me shiver

neffy;668354 wrote: I was in the kitchen chatting to shelley,when she stopped and stared right over my shoulder:-2 and with that she got a fork yes a fork hit off my shoulder a bloody huge spider:eek::eek:

God that made me shiver


I like spiders, it's frogs that freak me out :-3

Wendybird;668357 wrote: Poor spidey! Is he ok?


I would think not Bendy after being stabbed with a fork :wah:

yeah he is fine wendy,i have made him a little bed and put out some food down for him:wah:maybe you lot could come up with a name for the fellow i feel sure it is a male:wah:

SuzyB;668359 wrote: I would think not Bendy after being stabbed with a fork :wah:


no suzy he was not stabbed

Wendybird;668365 wrote: Fred

I always call large spiders Fred and small spiders are Ethel.


ok fred it is and i think we should fred the spider thread so we could ask him any questions on life :wah:

i would if i knew it would turn to a handsome prince:wah:

Seriously that was BAD I am staying well away from that page

I thought big spiders were Boris.

Round this part of Bristol we seem to have a colony of the most collosal brutes. They live outdoors and come in and out through the windows and air vents. They can move like lightning half way across a room. Logically they eat other stuff as well but all my daughter ever caught them eating was smaller spiders. She took one to school one day and lost it in the sixth-form common room after half the occupants had already passed out in fright. She's not the kindest child on the block when she gets a notion.

Wendybird;668401 wrote: You never forget a thing do you!It rather stuck in my mind because the girl photocopied twenty "wanted" posters which went up round the school with "Has anyone seen my Boris" over the identikit sketch and reward offer.

spot;668397 wrote: I thought big spiders were Boris.

Round this part of Bristol we seem to have a colony of the most collosal brutes. They live outdoors and come in and out through the windows and air vents. They can move like lightning half way across a room. Logically they eat other stuff as well but all my daughter ever caught them eating was smaller spiders. She took one to school one day and lost it in the sixth-form common room after half the occupants had already passed out in fright. She's not the kindest child on the block when she gets a notion.


Love it :wah::wah:

i don't like spideeees either.







but it's SNAKES i hate and can't stand!!!

Wendybird;668365 wrote: Fred

I always call large spiders Fred and small spiders are Ethel.


Ha, I always name spiders in the house Fred too!! The kids laugh at me...but now they do it...so ha...

cars;668458 wrote: i don't like spideeees either.







but it's SNAKES i hate and can't stand!!!








I have nightmares about snakes...have dreams that I'm in the woods and I'm surrounded by them, can't get away....eeeekkkkk....

Spiders are okay, not crazy about them, but they don't freak me out.

Suzy, I'm sorry that frogs scare you the way they do...we have frogs everywhere around here, last year I had a big bull frog that would sit on my front porch every evening...think I named him George...not sure where he went to, but haven't seen him this year??

I also have blue tail lizards that live under my house and come out and say hello every now and again...

What I can't handle are BATS!!!:eek:

WonderWendy3;668461 wrote: What I can't handle are BATS!!!:eek:Telegram for Mr Zinky, telegram for Mr Zinky...

spot;668462 wrote: Telegram for Mr Zinky, telegram for Mr Zinky...


Yeah, where is he these days????

He is the only one that doesn't scare me....but we have them in our neighborhood and I take evening walks and scream like a girl when they swoop down to eat bugs...

WonderWendy3;668461 wrote: Ha, I always name spiders in the house Fred too!! The kids laugh at me...but now they do it...so ha...





I have nightmares about snakes...have dreams that I'm in the woods and I'm surrounded by them, can't get away....eeeekkkkk....



Spiders are okay, not crazy about them, but they don't freak me out.



Suzy, I'm sorry that frogs scare you the way they do...we have frogs everywhere around here, last year I had a big bull frog that would sit on my front porch every evening...think I named him George...not sure where he went to, but haven't seen him this year??



I also have blue tail lizards that live under my house and come out and say hello every now and again...



What I can't handle are BATS!!!:eek:


maybe george became lunch for ????

and lizards, we have hundreds of them around at our florida villa! some of them have been around for years and are getting quite sizable!!! i've seen some of the smaller lizards right in front of my eyes become lunch for some big ol white birds resembling cranes, that love dining on them!

WonderWendy3;668465 wrote: Yeah, where is he these days????



He is the only one that doesn't scare me....but we have them in our neighborhood and I take evening walks and scream like a girl when they swoop down to eat bugs...


but, but, you are a girl!!!! :wah:

:wah: no i'm not scared of spiders either

i don't think anything like that scares me :-3

littlemissgiggle;668584 wrote: no i'm not scared of spiders either

i don't think anything like that scares me :-3




i have been bitten by an english spider the thing drew blood





i dont pick them up any more suzy does it :o

I don't mind snakes or spiders but would be really afraid to encounter a grizzly bear.

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minks;668590 wrote: I don't mind snakes or spiders but would be really afraid to encounter a grizzly bear.




i'm scared of mooses :wah::wah:

jimbo;668592 wrote: i'm scared of mooses :wah::wah:


bwahhh hawww hawwww hawwww it's the horns isn't it.

jimbo;668586 wrote: i have been bitten by an english spider the thing drew blood





i dont pick them up any more suzy does it :o


i didn't know we had harmful spiders in england.

Why did the spider buy a car?

So he could take it out for a spin!

:wah:

minks;668594 wrote: bwahhh hawww hawwww hawwww it's the horns isn't it.




i thought they were called antlers ....... oh you mean horn:-3:-3

jimbo;668597 wrote: i thought they were called antlers ....... oh you mean horn:-3:-3


they are typically called antlers yes.:wah:

OMG thikn the whole world would have heard me if that was me, that is my worst fear is them things with legs.

Glad you are ok.

Chris xx

jimbo;668586 wrote: i have been bitten by an english spider the thing drew blood





i dont pick them up any more suzy does it
years ago, i woke up and started to get ready for work. i noticed a red raised patch on my inner arm, scratched it a few times didn't pay too much attention to it and went to work. luckily it was hot that day, so i wore a short sleeved shirt. anyway about 2 hours into the work day, my friend says look at your arm. i did, and going up my arm starting from that red patch were a several red lines about 4 or 5 inches long! then my boss came along, looked, and said my arm looked like in needed medical attention. so he told my friend to drive me to the er. the er doctor looked at my red patch under a giant magnifying glass, got some instruments and lanced the area and put some anti-bacteria cream on it, and bandged it. he then gave me a tetinious shot, and told me most likely i was bitten by a brown recluse spider! lucky me!

all this, because i lived out in the clean air, woodsy, brush country!

oh my god i am glad you were ok. :-6

scary thought

cars;668683 wrote: years ago, i woke up and started to get ready for work. i noticed a red raised patch on my inner arm, scratched it a few times didn't pay too much attention to it and went to work. luckily it was hot that day, so i wore a short sleeved shirt. anyway about 2 hours into the work day, my friend says look at your arm. i did, and going up my arm starting from that red patch were a several red lines about 4 or 5 inches long! then my boss came along, looked, and said my arm looked like in needed medical attention. so he told my friend to drive me to the er. the er doctor looked at my red patch under a giant magnifying glass, got some instruments and lanced the area and put some anti-bacteria cream on it, and bandged it. he then gave me a tetinious shot, and told me most likely i was bitten by a brown recluse spider! lucky me!

all this, because i lived out in the clean air, woodsy, brush country!


My sister in law would go balistic if she just read that!! Her mom was bitten by a spider, they don't know what kind, but sent her to the hospital also...I was told that brown recluse don't live in Virginia....I'm not sure...

Anyway...Cars...I'm glad you are okay...:-4

WonderWendy3;668689 wrote: My sister in law would go balistic if she just read that!! Her mom was bitten by a spider, they don't know what kind, but sent her to the hospital also...I was told that brown recluse don't live in Virginia....I'm not sure...The Virginia Department of Forestry lists your problems as chiggers, ticks, bees, wasps and mosquitoes, poison ivy, poison oak, many other sticking, itching, and irritating plant life, and the Timber Rattler, the Canebreake Rattler, the Cottonmouth and the Copperhead. Survival advice is to "wash your skin often" which sounds very outdoors tough-guy talk to me.

But no brown recluse, you're right about that.

Cars, that's a horrible tale, I'm glad you survived. I'll tell you about my horsefly bite some day.

spot;668769 wrote: The Virginia Department of Forestry lists your problems as chiggers, ticks, bees, wasps and mosquitoes, poison ivy, poison oak, many other sticking, itching, and irritating plant life, and the Timber Rattler, the Canebreake Rattler, the Cottonmouth and the Copperhead. Survival advice is to "wash your skin often" which sounds very outdoors tough-guy talk to me.

But no brown recluse, you're right about that.

Cars, that's a horrible tale, I'm glad you survived. I'll tell you about my horsefly bite some day.


It died - horribly!

Bryn Mawr;668774 wrote: It died - horribly!


On the contrary, it probably brought up fifty offspring on all the blood it took from my veins and sent them all to horsefly university as well.

cars;668683 wrote: years ago, i woke up and started to get ready for work. i noticed a red raised patch on my inner arm, scratched it a few times didn't pay too much attention to it and went to work. luckily it was hot that day, so i wore a short sleeved shirt. anyway about 2 hours into the work day, my friend says look at your arm. i did, and going up my arm starting from that red patch were a several red lines about 4 or 5 inches long! then my boss came along, looked, and said my arm looked like in needed medical attention. so he told my friend to drive me to the er. the er doctor looked at my red patch under a giant magnifying glass, got some instruments and lanced the area and put some anti-bacteria cream on it, and bandged it. he then gave me a tetinious shot, and told me most likely i was bitten by a brown recluse spider! lucky me!

all this, because i lived out in the clean air, woodsy, brush country!




good grief you were lucky i saw on tv that some guy got bit by one of those and lost his fingers .... not in the spiders mouth nomad from the poison of the bite :-6:-6

We have huntsman and redback spiders,they send chills right down my spine,hate them.The redbacks are poisonous,the huntsman are hugh but harmless,omg if they get anywhere near me u wont see me for dust.I read an artical that a guy brought an exotic palm back from mexico and planted it in his back garden,after a few weeks wen he was watering it...it started to shudder,he did the same the next day and it was worse,so a bit worried he phoned his local garden centre and told them, they said to call the agricultural dep,he did.They came out to check it and he was told to get his family out of the house and the people next door.Then they went in with a flame thrower and used it on the palm,after a short time it exploded and millions of spider all came flying out of it and they burnt all of them.Apparently a certain kind of spider makes its home in these type of palms and lay there eggs there,It takes a few month's for them to hatch and this guy had just bought it a short time before that was about to happen,they flamed the whole palm and all the spiders.They are also deadley.The guy couldnt beleive it.OMG I would freak sooooooooooooooo much.