Conkers and spiders
Tiddy Ogg
puts conkers round her rooms as a spider deterrent. Anyone else heard
of this?
I don't mean she whaps them with the conkers for sport, of course.
N_Cook
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Last week we'd had enough of one huge spider taking up residence. Catching
sight, from a corner of an eye, of that big lump scurrying across the floor
and up the curtains for no apparent reason other than to annoy, was too
much. Scooping into a box and summary eviction to the garden for him/her.
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Andy Champ
>
>
> Last week we'd had enough of one huge spider taking up residence. Catching
> sight, from a corner of an eye, of that big lump scurrying across the floor
> and up the curtains for no apparent reason other than to annoy, was too
> much. Scooping into a box and summary eviction to the garden for him/her.
If that was a Tegenaria (The UK species, BTW don't bite; the Wikipedia
article you'll get for the first hit on that is US based) they are
originally cave spiders. Put them out, and they'll make a bolt for the
nearest cover - which is probably your house again!
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N_Cook
This story appeared on the quasi-weather spot on local ITV news yesterday
evening.
Tiddy Ogg
wrote:
>Tiddy Ogg <tidd...@madasasheep.com> wrote in message
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>> I know an old lady who...
>> puts conkers round her rooms as a spider deterrent. Anyone else heard
>> of this?
>> I don't mean she whaps them with the conkers for sport, of course.
>>
>
>
>This story appeared on the quasi-weather spot on local ITV news yesterday
>evening.
Did they pick it up from here, or is it a more common belief/theory?
N_Cook
Only caught the end of it , an interview with someone with a lethargic
tarantula-like in a vivarium. Finishing off with jocular reference to
conkers hung around a room not keeping that one at bay or something like
that, obviously referred to previously, before I had turned channels.
Ron
they are rife this year!
Ron - gone conkering
anahata
> Oh please tell me it's true, I can't do with them big house spids and
> they are rife this year!
Deploy FWSE with keywords "spiders" and "conkers" and decide for
yourself. There's certainly plenty of hits.
We always put a few around the house in the hope it'll work. I'm not
bothered by spids, but the missus is.
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Guy King
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> Oh please tell me it's true, I can't do with them big house spids and
> they are rife this year!
The sort that when you accost them with upturned cup and old postcard
from Penarth, because the sound of their hobnail boots on the lino is
too loud, look up at you with disdain and say "Sod off, mate"?
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Ron
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> from Ron <r...@lunevalleyaudio.com> contains these words:
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>> Oh please tell me it's true, I can't do with them big house spids and
>> they are rife this year!
>
> The sort that when you accost them with upturned cup and old postcard
> from Penarth, because the sound of their hobnail boots on the lino is
> too loud, look up at you with disdain and say "Sod off, mate"?
>
Roger Hunt
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>from Ron <r...@lunevalleyaudio.com> contains these words:
>
>> Oh please tell me it's true, I can't do with them big house spids and
>> they are rife this year!
>
>The sort that when you accost them with upturned cup and old postcard
>from Penarth, because the sound of their hobnail boots on the lino is
>too loud, look up at you with disdain and say "Sod off, mate"?
>
their rounds in the late evening just after Chucking-out Time.
One of them brought in a whole sheep the other night and I had to
finally lay down the law to these anarchic arachnids.
After being beaten up by them we have come to an understanding ...
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Ben Coulson
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>> I know an old lady who...
>> puts conkers round her rooms as a spider deterrent. Anyone else heard
>> of this?
I once ohled some "spider repellant" for my sister who has a fear of such
things. It was meant to be sprayed at doors and windows to keep them from
entering. One of the active ingredients was horse chestnut extract.
-=# Ben Coulson #=-
Graeme
news:UsudnUxEJ49VaVzX...@bt.com:
> Oh please tell me it's true, I can't do with them big house spids
> and
> they are rife this year!
Must be. There's not a conker to be had for thousands of miles round here
and the place has got loads of spiders, some of them quite nasty. Yet again
I believe the shed has solved one of life's great mysteries.
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Roger Hunt
>Ron <r...@lunevalleyaudio.com> wrote in
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>
>> Oh please tell me it's true, I can't do with them big house spids
>> and
>> they are rife this year!
>
>Must be. There's not a conker to be had for thousands of miles round here
>and the place has got loads of spiders, some of them quite nasty. Yet again
>I believe the shed has solved one of life's great mysteries.
>
In 1993 ex-Python Michael Palin was disqualified from a Conkers
competition in the United Kingdom for onxvat his conker and soaking
it in ivartne.
Gosh I say! The rotter!
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Ancipital
>> The sort that when you accost them with upturned cup and old postcard
>> from Penarth, because the sound of their hobnail boots on the lino is
>> too loud, look up at you with disdain and say "Sod off, mate"?
>>
> Some of the ones we've been getting won't fit under a pint pot!
Thems int spiders, them's traffic wardens, silly.
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Guy King
from Roger Hunt <nos...@nospam.demon.co.uk> contains these words:
> In 1993 ex-Python Michael Palin was disqualified from a Conkers
> competition in the United Kingdom for onxvat his conker and soaking
> it in ivartne.
> Gosh I say! The rotter!
Even now, the kids have a vat of conkers marinading in the airing
cupboard. I had to insist on a lid or all the towels would have smelt of
vinegar.
Roger Hunt
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>> In 1993 ex-Python Michael Palin was disqualified from a Conkers
>> competition in the United Kingdom for onxvat his conker and soaking
>> it in ivartne.
>
>> Gosh I say! The rotter!
>
>Even now, the kids have a vat of conkers marinading in the airing
>cupboard.
I suppose when they're older the same vat will hold the home-brew.
>I had to insist on a lid or all the towels would have smelt of
>vinegar.
>
Towels? Luxury.
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Tiddy Ogg
Thanks folks. It was brought up by Sarah Kennedy on Radio 2 this
morning - mentioning a woman who believed it.
Albert Ross
> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:51:35 +0100, Ron wrote:
>
>> Oh please tell me it's true, I can't do with them big house spids and
>> they are rife this year!
>
> Deploy FWSE with keywords "spiders" and "conkers" and decide for
> yourself. There's certainly plenty of hits.
>
> We always put a few around the house in the hope it'll work. I'm not
> bothered by spids, but the missus is.
>
It's all a conspiracy by the funcr-fuvsgvat (careful Frank) spiders that
rule us! the spiders hollow out the conkers to make nests for more spiders!
Nurse my foil hat has fallen off!
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Albert Ross
it's electronic - like e-mail, so it's e-fluent.
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Dave Budd
> In 1993 ex-Python Michael Palin was disqualified from a Conkers
> competition in the United Kingdom for onxvat his conker and soaking
> it in ivartne.
>
> Gosh I say! The rotter!
Forensic science used to beat conker cheats:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/sep/27/conker-cheat-crackdown-poulton
N_Cook
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Here in Hants, flu' an' trot is a medical condition
Richard Robinson
> Ron wrote:
>>> The sort that when you accost them with upturned cup and old postcard
>>> from Penarth, because the sound of their hobnail boots on the lino is
>>> too loud, look up at you with disdain and say "Sod off, mate"?
>>>
>> Some of the ones we've been getting won't fit under a pint pot!
>
> Thems int spiders, them's traffic wardens, silly.
You let traffic wardens onto your lino ?
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Guy King
from Tiddy Ogg <tidd...@madasasheep.com> contains these words:
> >I once ohled some "spider repellant" for my sister who has a fear of such
> >things. It was meant to be sprayed at doors and windows to keep them from
> >entering. One of the active ingredients was horse chestnut extract.
> >
> >-=# Ben Coulson #=-
> >
> Thanks folks. It was brought up by Sarah Kennedy on Radio 2 this
> morning - mentioning a woman who believed it.
I reckon it's like hanging up dead moles and crows - the idea is that
the spider sees what looks like a de-legged spider-corpse and thinks
"Crikey, if they can kill one that size, what chance do I have?" and
legs it while it still has legs upon which to do the legging.
Guy King
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> That cursed gastric flu, the back door trots is too good a name for it.
The teacher in the class next to Pip is down with alleged Pigpest. The
pseudomum[1] of one of the girls in that class has been laid low for
ages with it.
[1] Complex situation, but she looks after them well despite a lot of
interference from agencies that should know better.
Just zis Guy, you know?
wrote:
>I reckon it's like hanging up dead moles and crows - the idea is that
>the spider sees what looks like a de-legged spider-corpse and thinks
>"Crikey, if they can kill one that size, what chance do I have?" and
>legs it while it still has legs upon which to do the legging.
Or painting the gateposts with tiger dung to repel elephants.
Expensive, but works a treat - we've not seen an elephant round here
since we moved in.
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Albert Ross
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Well spotted!
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Ancipital
>>>>
>>> Some of the ones we've been getting won't fit under a pint pot!
>> Thems int spiders, them's traffic wardens, silly.
>
> You let traffic wardens onto your lino ?
>
>
Yes, the ceiling weed on it, it needs replacing, anyway. Even a
tarking picket couldn't make it look much worse, and it has been
parked thar a while.
Mel Rimmer
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>
>> In 1993 ex-Python Michael Palin was disqualified from a Conkers
>> competition in the United Kingdom for onxvat his conker and soaking
>> it in ivartne.
>
>> Gosh I say! The rotter!
>
> Even now, the kids have a vat of conkers marinading in the airing
> cupboard. I had to insist on a lid or all the towels would have smelt of
> vinegar.
>
Mel Rimmer
>>
> It's all a conspiracy by the funcr-fuvsgvat (careful Frank) spiders that
> rule us! the spiders hollow out the conkers to make nests for more spiders!
>
> Nurse my foil hat has fallen off!
I for one welcome our new arachnid overlords.
Guy King
from Mel Rimmer <mel.r...@timelord.org.uk> contains these words:
> > Even now, the kids have a vat of conkers marinading in the airing
> > cupboard. I had to insist on a lid or all the towels would have smelt of
> > vinegar.
> >
> The best thing is to hollow them out and fill them with epoxy resin.
I carefully split one and made a lead core and Araldited the shell back.
Wasn't as good as I hoped - though indomitable it lost the shell quite
quickly and gave the game away.
Sunny Bard
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>
>>> Even now, the kids have a vat of conkers marinading in the airing
>>> cupboard. I had to insist on a lid or all the towels would have smelt of
>>> vinegar.
>>>
>> The best thing is to hollow them out and fill them with epoxy resin.
>
> I carefully split one and made a lead core and Araldited the shell back.
> Wasn't as good as I hoped - though indomitable it lost the shell quite
> quickly and gave the game away.
Air-brushed carbon fibre?
Andy Champ
>
> I carefully split one and made a lead core and Araldited the shell back.
> Wasn't as good as I hoped - though indomitable it lost the shell quite
> quickly and gave the game away.
>
Wrong glue. The shell will bend, and so will the lead, Araldite won't
and will crack.
Andy
Roger Hunt
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>from Mel Rimmer <mel.r...@timelord.org.uk> contains these words:
>
>> > Even now, the kids have a vat of conkers marinading in the airing
>> > cupboard. I had to insist on a lid or all the towels would have smelt of
>> > vinegar.
>> >
>> The best thing is to hollow them out and fill them with epoxy resin.
>
>I carefully split one and made a lead core and Araldited the shell back.
>Wasn't as good as I hoped - though indomitable it lost the shell quite
>quickly and gave the game away.
>
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Guy King
from Andy Champ <no....@nospam.invalid> contains these words:
Ah, well. I know that now, but I was only just starting secondary school.