Do you want to see what was on our bathroom wall tonight? Then you can all stop whingeing about .....

[ghosty]

.... how big the spiders are getting in England these days ...

To misquote the great Crocodile Dundee:

"That's not a spider. This is a spider!"

Photos on my profile if you dare.

US - I'm mamama

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hello!!

Hello!

LOL - you think we were going to get any closer so we could put it into perspective?

It took DP 5 bottles of beer and an entire can of mortein to get it under control.

It was ENORMOUS.

Good god. I would have an absolute heart attack if I saw a spider like that in my house. Surely it's too big even to fit down the hoover nozzle? I have no idea what to do if I see one as i am phobic and DH, although not phobic, would never be able to get close enough to put a glass over one.

We had our first huntsman in the other night but it was much smaller. And green. It got hoovered.

Hoover? Not in a million years. That's why we had to unleash chemical warfare on it.

I was brave enough to empty a can of mortein on a huntsman (half that size) earlier this year and it was like a scene from the Terminator. Every time I thought it was dead it came back alive ....
In the end I was shouting "Diiiiieeeeeeeeee you baaaaaaaaaaaaaaarstaaaaaaaaaaaaaard" at the top of my voice. I could never hoover up a spider like that ...
I told DH that if he hadn't been here last night I would have got the children out of bed and gone to a motel for the night ...
Where do you live Ozziegirl?

PS. Good to see you mamama

Arfishy ... did your DH try to kill your spider by getting it pissed?

LOL no. He had to drink the beer to get the courage to get close enough to use the Mortein. It was rearing up .

Our garden has two levels - a courtyard one [safe] and steps leading up to a grassy, tree -filled spider haven. Rather foolishly we had a big pool up there and that's where it was sitting. So DP had to go up there into the grassy/spidery bit not knowing if there was a whole colony of mutant huntsmen while dd and I stayed in the living room screaming.

Oh and at mortein-proof huntsmen coming back from the dead.

That's why I had the man round last week for the annual spray!

As someone who couldn't stay in a room with a thumbnail size spider once upon a time huge sympathy ghosty. In a rather bizarre way having to confront a huntsman in DDs bedroom days after we arrived (and DH was out) was good for me,k though I couldn't believe how they can outrun the spray! They still make me feel a bit sick though.

Trees = bad
In australia anyway.
The Terminator Huntsman came in when we had a gardener cut down some trees down the side of the house
I am thinking of moving into the city and living in a concret high rise. The children can play on the tram tracks when they get bored.

big wusses both of you - what do you think thongs are for!!!!

Actually I have never seen one that big and we do not get them that big here in brisbane.

Marine stingers - from about Mackay north - have to swim in stinger suits, old pantyhose or even better stinger proof enclosurs so you do not get stung by box jellyfish!!

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ghosty - have you had your first snake yet???

I would positively welcome a poisonous snake into the house and give it a cup of tea and a chocolate brownie before seeing one of those 'harmless' huntsmen again ...

Do you really not have them that big in Brissie Eids????

not with that thick body like that and not as big as an apple - we have big ones - usually downstairs in the rumpus - never had one in the bathroom. Most of them are in the shed - dh's domain really.

Pah, you lightweight. Seen bigger in Oxford.

I would really love a house in the country (or even the northern beaches) with a garden, but it's having these monsters that really puts me off.

I'm on the north shore for whoever it was who asked. On the third floor, safely away from most spiders (please).

I may need to get this bug killing stuff though in case I find a spider too big to fit in the hoover. God, even the thought of that fills me with horror.

Actually, my normal reaction to huntsmen is to scream and run away. They're just so hairy and muscular.

Ghosty you have been very brave. I don't even have a phobia and wouldn't go near one. They're big enough to lift up those glasses for a start.

Blilmey that is horrible. I was sitting on the loo once and glanced over at the sink unit (about 15cm from my face) and staring back at me was a HUGE huntsman, I, of course, screamed and ran out. DH just said, in that laid back Ozzie way, "oh them, thay're great - they eat all the flies you know".

Never had a redback tho.

bloody hell spiders dont normally bother me but if i saw one those in my bathroom id move house

Big spider but....... forget the spider. Who was the handsome hunk getting his shirt off?
More, more.......

whhyyyyy do I keep clicking on these links??

I always make sure I have a glass of wine in my hand before I click on the spider links

Did you find his space craft also?