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Seriously ? What's the problem ?

To hear my husband shouting from the bathroom, you'd think he'd just cut his throat.

But no, a grown man of 6ft 1 can't handle a spider. Fair enough, It was a big un and one of those black hairy one's and It was doing squats In the bath tub.

Me ? Easy. Pick the hairy fella up In my hand and drop him out the window. Job done and no-one gets hurt.

I don't particually like them per say. I wouldn't share a pot of Lipton's and a lightly buttered scone with one but I just don't get why all the fuss.?

Can you handle them or are you a screamer?

I'm learning to handle them (ish) having been a screamer. But this is my first spider season in my flat and I don't know what to expect or how I'll react in a smaller environment with more hiding places...shudder

theia;1434526 wrote: I'm learning to handle them (ish) having been a screamer. But this is my first spider season in my flat and I don't know what to expect or how I'll react in a smaller environment with more hiding places...shudder


If It's any help, I can advise that the little fella's hate citrus. Dab Citronella along window Sills and doors. It will help.

A few years back, Peter said to me ' Don't look behind the sofa'. I said It's OK, I'd already seen It hoofing across the lounge floor an hour earlier.

Went to do the glass trick. Glass over spider and slide a card underneath. Not even a pint glass was big enough for this one so had to pick It up with my hand.

Wifey is scared of them. Never heard her panic but excitedly summon me to remove the spider. My instinct is to just kill them but she insists I escort them outside.

I am phobic about rats or mice, but wasps bees spiders, don't scare me one bit.

The beasties themselves don't scare me. It's being startled that I don't like.

along-for-the-ride;1434542 wrote: The beasties themselves don't scare me. It's being startled that I don't like. I know what you mean. It's the way they sit there passively and then suddenly launch up the entire body and move In that scuttling type kind of way.

I have a resident spider called Trevor... he lives In my Airing cupboard.

Bruv;1434536 wrote: I am phobic about rats or mice, but wasps bees spiders, don't scare me one bit. I think Rats are my favourite... love them and mice.

I only have one phobia and that's Stag Beetles. Thank God they are an endangered species these days and you don't see many.

My garden Is home to Slow worms...