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Curmudgeons' Corner 3. I blame it on the scapegoat🐐

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    There's  a B3 spider  scale   . This is used  to determine  whether  or not  you  are  willing  to share  your  bedroom.
    Egg  cup fine
    Wine glass  ok
    Beer  glass no way! !

    I'm  in the  spare  room  as it's  escaped  twice. It's  a fast  mover  and  doesn't  stay  on the ceiling. 
    Definitely  beer  glass  circumference 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    edited August 2019
    The widower was very good, only thing is, it’s not long been on, good old TV, repeats again!   Round for a 2nd time in as many  years. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Ross Poldark’s holier than thou do-gooding is becoming really irritating. 
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I'd not seen the Widower before. Enjoyed it.
    Not bothered with this series of Poldark 
    Devon.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I dont mind any spiders in the house. Had one in the bedroom last week, but I couldn't be bothered getting him out. The following night he was parked on the wall, so I 'glassed' him [not in the Glaswegian way, I hasten to add] and he only just fitted in it.  :D
    Daughter watched The Widower with me [I'd seen it first time round too] and she couldn't quite believe it was based on a true story. All the main cast of League of Gentleman are very accomplished 'straight' actors as well as being hilariously funny. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    We have these long legged centipedes down here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata, I just let them get on with it and they race away a great speed!
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    They look brilliant @floralies :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    We have had a rash of cellar spiders this year, the ones got up to look like daddy long legs. They’re particularly stupid creatures because we don’t have a cellar so they kick their heels on the upstairs bedroom ceilings instead. 
    Rutland, England
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    edited August 2019
    B3 said:
    There's  a B3 spider  scale   . This is used  to determine  whether  or not  you  are  willing  to share  your  bedroom.
    Egg  cup fine
    Wine glass  ok
    Beer  glass no way! !

    I'm  in the  spare  room  as it's  escaped  twice. It's  a fast  mover  and  doesn't  stay  on the ceiling. 
    Definitely  beer  glass  circumference 
    we get a lot of the big ones that don't build webs at this time of year. They are huge but they only cause a problem when they run across the floor, both dogs leap at them and then get into an argument about who saw it first.

    I used to know someone who was so scared of spiders she couldn't even say the word, so she called them horses. She had a similar sort of scale to yours, B3. Ponies were worrying, horses had to be removed by someone before she'd relax and shire horses (hairy legs) she'd run screaming from the room.

    Personally, I like them. We get so many biting flies - horse flies and stable flies - that spiders who eat them are made very welcome here.
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I have to keep reminding Possum that spiders are our friends but I still get to go and reove any she finds in the bathroom, bedroom etc.   Wuss!   Doesn't get that from me.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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