I thought it was a pile of black thread...

[OvO]

But it was a giant fucking spider!

I’m fine, I’m fiiiiiine.

I’ve set the house on fire obviously.

I’m a cross stitcher so threads get everywhere so it seemed reasonable that's what it’d be! Fucking thread, raisins, and tomato tops! All bastards.

Last week I was lying in bed and turned to switch off the lamp and saw something move out of the corner of my eye...imagine enormous black spider running towards your face across the duvet...

There was an exciting game of hide and seek until it reappeared ON THE WALL next to my bed, straight out of Arachnophobia 😱

This megladon of spiders was in our garden yesterday!

I once wrapped a towel round my head after washing my hair, felt a loose hair tickle my face and closed my hand on it to find a massive spider in my hand. I screamed so loudly I frightened the dog downstairs. He came barking up the stairs at me.

And just the other day I grabbed a box of teabags out of a bag in the utility room to find a big dead spider squished against it in my hand. I don’t think I killed it but eeeewwwww.

I'll forever feel guilt for the time I strapped my daughter into her pram, tilted it back & heard a plop, followed by her screaming. Spider had been inside the hood & was now in the pram with her :( I'm hoping it hasn't left her with a phobia.

I had one of the massive bastards in my bathroom this morning. Screamed my head off. Not that it helps.

Alska Holy** Moses! That's fucking gross...

@OvO I'm also a cross stitcher, also in Scotland - you may have put me off my Christmas sewing

@blueangel1 @FermatsTheorem Yep, try waking up to one of those crawling across your arm. Or worse being asleep and feeling a tickle on your arm, putting your hand on it to scratch and then realizing that you're touching a massive potato bug. So half awake in the dark in a panic you flick at the fucking monster only to realize that you don't know where it landed. So you scream and wake up DH who thinks you're being murdered. Couldn't find the damned thing so I insisted we strip the whole bed and make it up fresh.

This has happened more than once.

Oh christ AcrossthePond55. I’d have slept in another room.

OvO has left the thread and started a new one. The spider pictures were too much.

Last week there was what I thought was black thread on a tea towel on the washing line. I flicked it and it was a spider!!!!

I found the corpse of yesterday's spider. Phew!

Went to mailbox and a black spider with fluorescent green fangs jumped towards me thank God there was no traffic driving by or I would’ve been hit by it stepping back in street to get away