General Chat

Those who loathe spiders (moi being one) the conker season is upon us. One in a corner of each room keeps them away. Tried and tested for 3 years. OH just brought me 6 nice bright shiny conkers. For those disbelievers - why did I see just this week a spray advertised as having the smell of conkers which keeps spiders at bay on sale at a mere £15. My 6 conkers cost nothing.

spiders come in through my bathroom windows
massive man eaters
so i will get my butler
to hang his conkers out the window

and scare them away

well i read in the daily mail on tuesday, that some university has proved it dosnt work :( sadly i loathe spides n had to kill a massive one last night, surprising how brave you can be when a 5 yr old is stood beside you haha

I have a mental picture Joy - oh dear! I know Kitten and I said they are up a gum tree it does work. We have a wood at the back of us and we get huge ones - even OH has to admit to that but not for the past three years. Try it and see - won't cost anything

My FIL does this & it doesn't work by him......maybe Norfolk Spiders like a game of conkers

Stray...you should have seen the size of the one that fell in me bath...........While i was in it i might add

Chris,

Thanks for the reminder about the conkers. I have some rather dried up ones from last year, so I'm off to the cemetery this afternoon for a fresh supply! Hope I don't get distracted by the headstones, but there is the most fantastic avenue of horsechestnut trees along one side. Hope they haven't all been picked up!

Elisabeth xx

julie id have passed out,
i have got better with them, as iv had to be brave and kill them,

but i try to get others to do it if possible lol

there definitly bigger this year iv never seen them so big, :(

i had to laugh last week strays cat
was in my bath playing with a massive spider

Joy, pmsl.**M**.

so tell me if this conker stuff works then how on earth do i use it to get rid of egor? he sits and waits for me hanging from the car to the tree and wants to take a trip with me somewhere!! trouble is i cant get in the car for the big fat sod!!!! hes brown and black and got a fat bum and long legs andi cant stand him

dawn if he was my spider

he would die of a massive headache

We had a big lad crawling across the bottom of the empty bath when I went up to bed the other night. I mean tarantulla propostions. I had visions of waking up in the night and it crawling across me face. I let the OH deal with it. The thought of it as I type is giving me palpitations
Julia in Derbyshire

I dont mind spiders. I just leave them and help them out the bath if they are stuck.
Now, it it was a mouse, I'd be off like a shot lol

OH DEAR OH DEARIE ME
WE HAVE A PROBLEM
took the butler conker hunting
thought i would get a few million to ward off the spiders
and guess what was dangling from the conker tree

happy as Larry it was

It must have had a cold Joy and lost its sense of smell. All I know is since the conkers came in the spiders have gone out and I am happy.

it must of
maybe its sense of smell was hiding

I now have a large collection of conkers, enough for the whole family. It must have been ideal growing weather, most of them would have been real treasures in my conker playing days.

There have obviously been hundreds already collected by youngsters, but the ground was covered in them, so I didn't feel I was depriving any conker players.

Elisabeth

Edit: I did end up having a chat about family history with a passing chap and a lady tending her husband's grave. Also chatted to the gardener tending the CWG area, which was looking immaculate. Lovely way to spend a bright autumn afternoon.

i must add
it did look like a very hard spider hanging from the tree
it had a little leather jacket on with eight arm holes

and a flick knife lol

there is no point me getting cnkers,
littleman and grandad will only nick them to string them lol

soon be time for the spiders to hide for winter so we will all be safe lol x

Must tell my dau, she's petrified of even the smallest spider.
Trouble is there are no Horse chestnut trees where we live.
I know where they are where I lived as a child, about 5 miles away so she'll probably want to go there to collect some, if they haven't already been picked.lol