Oct 02 2008
congregational spiders
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Combat cleaning’s monthly stop-by to put their duster, vacuum, or wet-wipes in all those places that spiders congregate, to make sure that I don’t drown in the discarded natural insulation produced by the fluffballs, is a particularly pleasant luxury.
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Pleasant because they
- ask about the building work then giggle endearingly at the answer.
- don’t complain when my tap (US = fawcett) handles fall-off (if twisted at the wrong angle) in their hands.
- take the drapes diving for the floor, because the super-glue holding the drape-hangers up just isn’t quite as super as the advertising would have me believe, in their stride.
congregational spiders
Hi Wendy
In Australia, living with spiders in the house is part of life’s rich tapestry, even crawlies as big as a child’s hand. My car’s wing mirrors even sport cobwebs!
There’s also ants in the kitchen, wild cockroaches (as opposed to pets), possums (not often *in* the house), lorikeets, frogs (brought in my my cat Daisy) and small lizards (with and without tails depending on whether they’ve had a close brush with daisy).
Also shivering, also having work done, also looking at spidery insulation . . .
Sx
I’ll take most kinds of spiders over scorpions. Nothing quite gets your blood moving like going to the loo in the night then turning on light to wash your hands and seeing one of those little guys right next to your foot. Even though I’ve seen a few black widows around my place, they hang out in the garden. I just don’t stick my hand anywhere until I look first.
Dan, your one-ness and house-sharing policy with our natural companions is admirable.
Scarlet, I now suspect my builders are either at your place or having tea when they are not here (often).
Poochner, coincidentally, ‘don’t stick your hand anywhere until you’ve looked first’ is the motto of the Chipping Sodbury Branch of the Black Widow Detection Agency, founded in 1918 to hunt down and bring to justice women that bumped-off their husbands after the 21 year old daughter of a coal miner (from Hartlepool) was found guilty of sequentially removing her husbands for financial gain by lacing their Garibaldi’s with lumps of cyanide poorly diguised as burnt almonds.
Can you extend the length of your sentences and include a few more commas and semi-colons; please.
‘don’t stick your hand anywhere until you’ve looked first’ is the sum total of our sex education at my 1970s grammar school
You.. *superglued* your curtain rail? Women and diy!
Name required. If you want to talk sexist bollocks then post your comments on some other dudes blog.
When I discovered the previous Wendy House owner (male) had superglued the curtain rails to the conservatory I was indeed amazed by his silliness, and re-glued them as a temporary measure while looking into more appropriate methods.
Now, keep with the witty non-sexist agenda, you were doing so marvellously well until this big-blooper…