To have grown quite attached to the spider that lives in our bathroom

[peggotty]

And probably also a bit strange I realise. It's been there for months, occasionally disappears for a week or two but always comes back. I sort of miss it when it's gone . I know it's the same spider all the time because it's only got 7 legs. I think it's a called a cellar spider. I've seen it catch a spider about 3 times bigger than it. Jeez, I would never tell anyone in RL I am quite fond of a spider.

I need to get out more don't i?

I had one on the kitchen window last year.I used to get a bit worried if I didn't see him/her eat anything for a few days

peggotty.Ihad a little,beautifully marked spider that lived on the side of my washing line pole.It was there for months,really big only came out at night.Last summer after one of those really heav rainstorm it went missing.It was so .Things have never been the same in our yard again, Some would say we are a bit madI do rule ou a tarantula as a pet though.

darkandstormy, those are garden spiders, they're only around in the open for a few weeks at the end of summer usually, when they are mature, then they go off and breed I think, so yours probably just set up a cosy little web somewhere with the spider of his/her dreams

YANBU, just a bit odd

Join the club - we have one that lives up in the corner on our landing. He's called Boris.

I've adopted him as a pet - less housework for me!

YABU. Hate the bastards.

You are all BU and possibly slightly barking. Getting the heeby jeebies at the thought of a regular thing. Can't even type the word. Although I do have a bit of a phobia so maybe I am BU.

aaah I like things like this

I say hello to a cat across the road when I go to work in the morning. He sits in the window (inside) every day on my route to the station and I said to my dh how I almost felt the cat got up to say hello to me in the morning (we live in a row of terraced houses so all tightly packed).

It made me feel quite happy. I walk home, on the way back, a different way.

I have worked from home today and went to the PO and it is still there and I have just realised, on closer inspection, that it's a china cat . Months I've been saying hello to it every morning.It's quite obviously been stuck there the whole time lol .

foxinsocks

pmsl foxinsocks!! Are you in need of spectacles? Although, quite frankly, my spider is not that much more active than a china cat.

I haven't named my spider or anything, but do think of it as a 'he'. I do get a bit worried if it disappears for a while. It came back recently after being gone since february and I was ridiculously pleased to see it!

Foxinsocks, you have just made my day

hey hello mi!

lol peggotty, I am already fond of your spider. You'll have to give him a name, then you can talk to him .

lol! I give him a friendly nod every morning. I would really start to worry about myself if I start talking to him. (see! I am already referring to it as 'him', I'm on a slippery slope I tell you!)

Lol ilovepiccolina, we have a spider called Boris too.
He often disappears for a few months maybe he pops down to yours?

Not unreasonable at all.

Unfortunately my mother hates them and tries to tread on them if she thinks she can get away with it.

There was one that lived under the radiator in the bathroom that you could see when you sat on the loo. I'd scare it away whenever I wanted to hoover.

I haven't seen it for ages. I think she's killed it for watching her weeing

YANBU. Just a bit soft! I got very attached to a lovely little spider that lived under the kitchen windowsill (outside) and I used to keep tabs on how her babies were getting on. And tell DH not to brush her web away.

We have one too, Ariadne, She lives above the coat hooks and is really quite beautiful in her own way

Sometimes it's really nice to know you aren't the only nutter!! We have one in the downstairs loo - he has a name and I always talk to him!!

StillMooing - Spooky! Maybe Boris comes south for the winter.

Until the last couple of weeks, I used to regularly hoover up the spiders in our place. But since a friend of mine told me that they (spiders that is) eat ants and also help keep cockroaches* at bay, I've left the spiders to it. They still give me the heebie jeebies but they're the lesser of 2 evils really. There are at least 3 in my laundry room and 4 or more in the kitchen but they mostly stay put - I tend to freak when spiders move.

• nope, not living in squalor... they're very prevalent in Sydney... horrid bastards!

YABU

anything with 8 or 7 legs is up to no good

We had a seven legged spider in our sitting room when I was growning up. My dad named it Septimus...

I don't like spiders at all. I try to. I really do but they make me shudder. I tend to let the cats "deal" with them but DD (2.6) is adamant that they have to be caught and put in the garden. So, last week, we had a small one that was capture (cup and paper) and released to immediately come back into the house the wild.

Then, later, we had a full on house spider horror tarantula thing that she spotted on the floor near the bathroom. Still shuddering to think of it. She agreed that one could be despatched down the loo. Caught it, chucked it in the loo, flushed and the bloody thing floated. I preteneded it had gone and when I checked later, it had. I assume it's hauled its horrible carcass out of the loo and is lurking, awaiting its chance of revnge. Ewwwwwwww.

It could be worse. I was quite attached to a dead spider that hung in its web above the window in my Nana's dining room for years. She isn't the 'housewife' type, so there were always cobwebs inthe upper parts of the room, and this one kind of became part of the fixtures and fittings. I was gutted when my cousin got fed up with his allergies bothering him and cleaned the room.

BDSM My little Nan used to have a 7 legged spider called Septimus, it lived in her bathroom, I hated it.

I flush them down the loo, they make a little air sack around them, and so survive the rapids, and spend the rest of their time in the pipes.

I always put a piece of paper over them to stop them floating, then make DH go for a sit down wee, just incase it's still lurking, his will be the first bottom it bites, not mine or our DD's.