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Winter has arrived
On 17/11/07 23:12, in article
, "Charlie Pridham" wrote: In article , says... On 17/11/07 21:33, in article , "Pete C" wrote: David in Normandy wrote: The mice must be finding it cold too - I keep gardening shoes and leather gloves in a lean-to. One of the shoes was stuffed full of leaves as was one of the gloves. While I can appreciate these may be des-res apartments for mice in Winter why do they feel it necessary to crap inside them too? :-( I always roll my gardening gloves. Not because of mice, but spiders. All gone now, but earlier autumn, there was hundreds of 'em in my garden, shed, and house. Hate the bu**ers! Me too. Ray always shakes out my wellies and gardening coat for me before I put them on! How can you possibly get through a day in September and October without having to push through hundreds of webs at face level? they seem to love the greenhouses and tunnels :~) I have a cunning plan. I go out after everyone else. I don't get paid so I suit myself! ;-)) I can cope with the webs, it's the inhabitants I don't want to meet. Even then, garden spiders don't bother me in the same way as those gigantic house things. Ray threw one of his pillows out of bed the other night, as is his habit before sleeping, and as I walked past it I saw Son of Dracula clinging to the lace edge. How Ray didn't see that I cannot imagine as I am now on 'full spider alert'. That beastie went into orbit out of the bedroom window pdq, I can tell you! One of our nursery staff will do absolutely any job thrown at her but she begs not to work in the Fuchsia house because she swears that spiders have an affinity with Fuchsias and spend more time there than anywhere else. Of course, this might be why a lot of blackbirds nest in there, too. ;-) In the house we mostly get those tiny pin-bodied, thready leg things but when we were re-wiring part of it once, the electrician (who hated spiders) emerged from under the floorboards and said "they're breeding with lobsters down there"! -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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Winter has arrived
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says... I have a cunning plan. I go out after everyone else. I don't get paid so I suit myself! ;-)) I can cope with the webs, it's the inhabitants I don't want to meet. Even then, garden spiders don't bother me in the same way as those gigantic house things. Ray threw one of his pillows out of bed the other night, as is his habit before sleeping, and as I walked past it I saw Son of Dracula clinging to the lace edge. How Ray didn't see that I cannot imagine as I am now on 'full spider alert'. That beastie went into orbit out of the bedroom window pdq, I can tell you! One of our nursery staff will do absolutely any job thrown at her but she begs not to work in the Fuchsia house because she swears that spiders have an affinity with Fuchsias and spend more time there than anywhere else. Of course, this might be why a lot of blackbirds nest in there, too. ;-) In the house we mostly get those tiny pin-bodied, thready leg things but when we were re-wiring part of it once, the electrician (who hated spiders) emerged from under the floorboards and said "they're breeding with lobsters down there"! I tried the same cunning plan with Liz but she is shorter than me so I still get a faceful! I don't mind the spiders its the webs in the face I find annoying. Those big house spiders are to this family always known as "Freds" My daughter who objected to sharing her bed with them would scream for its removal so I would go up and evict it from her room, she now claims this was a waste of time as once I had gone back down stairs she would watch it come back under the door :~) -- Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and Lapageria rosea |
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Winter has arrived
On 18/11/07 09:04, in article
, "Charlie Pridham" wrote: In article , says... I have a cunning plan. I go out after everyone else. I don't get paid so I suit myself! ;-)) I can cope with the webs, it's the inhabitants I don't want to meet. Even then, garden spiders don't bother me in the same way as those gigantic house things. Ray threw one of his pillows out of bed the other night, as is his habit before sleeping, and as I walked past it I saw Son of Dracula clinging to the lace edge. How Ray didn't see that I cannot imagine as I am now on 'full spider alert'. That beastie went into orbit out of the bedroom window pdq, I can tell you! One of our nursery staff will do absolutely any job thrown at her but she begs not to work in the Fuchsia house because she swears that spiders have an affinity with Fuchsias and spend more time there than anywhere else. Of course, this might be why a lot of blackbirds nest in there, too. ;-) In the house we mostly get those tiny pin-bodied, thready leg things but when we were re-wiring part of it once, the electrician (who hated spiders) emerged from under the floorboards and said "they're breeding with lobsters down there"! I tried the same cunning plan with Liz but she is shorter than me so I still get a faceful! I don't mind the spiders its the webs in the face I find annoying. Just imagine choosing a wife so that she'd get the webs before you did! Those big house spiders are to this family always known as "Freds" My daughter who objected to sharing her bed with them would scream for its removal so I would go up and evict it from her room, she now claims this was a waste of time as once I had gone back down stairs she would watch it come back under the door :~) I always tell Ray, as he chucks them out the window, that they'll be back inside before he's back in bed! ;-) Back in the 60s when all self-respecting disco queens wore false eyelashes, my mother heard an almighty shout from my bedroom followed by a series of loud thuds. My stepfather, who had kindly gone in to turn the fire on before I got home from a party, emerged looking quite shaken (he hated spiders) and said "Sacha is going to be so relieved I found that spider on her dressing table before she did". Looking over his shoulder, my mother said "Well done. You've just killed one of her false eyelashes". But he *really* got his comeuppance on another evening when I was out late. He put a plastic spider on my carpet, thinking that when I came in I'd come upstairs, see the spider and get the boyfriend to come and deal with it. Unfortunately, I'd packed him off home as soon as he'd dropped me at the door. It was around 2.30am when I saw the spider from the bedroom door, let out a yell, went and woke the parents and watched in astonishment as my aracnophobe, half asleep stepfather scooped up the spider in his bare hand. Seconds later, he admitted he'd been hoist by his own petard. ;-) -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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