What are you doing right now?

[Minty]

(21-07-2012 09:02 AM)Caspin Wrote:  Big earthquake or little earthquake? I read that you are meant to stand in the doorframe. Anyway, hope you are getting some pre-birthday weekend treats today Ollie!

Right now I am pursuing spiders around the room with a postcard and a jar. I have two out of three of the little critters. I quite like spiders but there seems to have been a population explosion and some must go back outside!

Good for you. "If you wish to live and thrive, let the spider run alive" is a truism. The number of nasties they will kill in your house at night makes them invaluable. We live near a stream, so we get a lot of woodlice around. Indoors or out we don't want them as they'll try to eat anything (& woodlice poo invisible to the naked eye about the place doesn't do your lungs a lot of good).

We still chuck them out though, as its in the garden they're most needed.

There's one spider we never chuck out which makes its home inside an old TV aerial outside line box socket on the skirting board. It only comes out after we've all gone to bed. Occasionally there's a dead pillbug or two in the morning waiting to be hoovered up. Some people have a watchdog. We have a watch spider.