Jacey Bedford&#39;s Journal

I kida feel sorry for spiders but it it comes to me or them...

We did have a very nice funnel weaver that took up residence in the kitchen sown the side of an old wooden filing cabinet that was impossible to move. He stayed with us for a few monts - haveing woven a verutable cornucopia of a web. He used to sit on the lip if the the funnel and if you walked too close he'd scuttle back down his funnel out of the way.

I was a bit twtchy because having been to Australia i know that their funnel web spiders are dangerous, but I looked this one up and he/she seemed pretty harmless except it said their breeding time was August and July was just coming to a close.

I don't mind providing a home for one housetrained spider, but their many millions of offspring would be more than my hospitality would stretch to, so that beautiful, work-of-art web and its maker met a vacuumy end.

Apparently vacuum cleaners are the number one killer of British household diders.

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Apparently vacuum cleaners are the number one killer of British household diders.

I've got a few that way, I must admit but I don't trust my Vax to really do the job (no rotating brushes to beat them to bits). So it's usually a booted foot, or a flat, heavy object in our house. Or my beloved, if the spider's really big *g*

I don't think I'd last long in Australia, though I quite like to watch spiders when they're outside my house.

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Firstly - apologies for the typos in that last comment. New keyboard and late nights don't go together.

Secondly - re Australian spiders. let me say 'me too' (very loudly). And snakes too. We didn't see a funnel web there but on our first day (in Perth) our host did yell for us to come an take a look at something in a woodpile. It was a tiny little black spider with a red spot on its back. 'Just thought you should see one of these for yourselves,' he said. 'If you come across one don't touch it - it can kill you.'

The other spidery experience was in Sydney - seeing a big fat web strung across the twelve foot gap between two houses. Swinging gently in the breeze were three enormous spiders with black and yellow striped legs. I promptly had the heebies, but our host just shrugged and said they weren't anything to worry about, however I got the feeling they were hunting for prey and would tackle anything as big as a a large domestic cat or a small child.

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Swinging gently in the breeze were three enormous spiders with black and yellow striped legs.

For some reason I now have a vision of Suicide Girls or similar wearing black and yellow striped stockings, swinging on trapezes.

I think I need some sleep. My dreams are likely to be weird, though.

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Well, color me impressed! That's quite a job and only made trickier by the lack of space to work in. I bet it's going to feel fabulous when you're done...

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It's getting closer. I'm typing this on the new computer from my newly positioned desk. I now have my back into the filling cabinet corner, tyhe desk at an angle and the window light falls across where I work. I just have to be careful to positionn the computer screens so they don't reflect window at me.

I also have a cameras in my laptop so we should be able to make video calls now.

Hopefully tomorrow the big wooden thing that my computer and printer were on will get carried away to the back shop by some big stron hairy Canadians (Yes I have Tanglefoot in residence again.)

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It's always good to have hairy Canadians around when you need heavy lifting done! Hope that new computer is spiffy...

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Nerw computer still has a few teething troubles, brobably due to pre-installed bloatware which I still need to remove.

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"bloatware"- LOL! I'm sure you'll tidy it up in no time!

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As usual when facing office clean-up, stuff spilled out all over the hallway. Most of it is back in the office, but I'm still trying to work out where to put a big bag of black flece and 2 yards of black ans white jersey print. (Yeah, I know, but sewing is further down the list.)

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On the Yorkshire feng shui how near are you to Mytholmroyd? that ancient kingdom of Elmet (like my own of Ergyng) can be very helpful on the "make friends with your ley lines" principle - Yes, I relaly am serious! and no, the men in whute coats haven't got me yet *g*.

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About an hour from Mytholmroyd as the twisty road winds - maybe a little longer in bad weather. We're up on the edge of the Pennines about 9 miles south of Huddersfield - close to Holmfirth and Denby Dale which holds the record for making the world's largest pies.

Though isn't Elmet further East? We were married at Sherburn in Elmet - between Pontefract and Tadcaster.

How far did the ancient kingdom of Elmet stretch?

Tell me more about (local) ley lines, please.

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OK, here's some links ...
http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsBritain/BritainElmet.htm and try particularly their map British map AD450-700
http://oldtykes.co.uk/Elmet.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmet

Sherburn is aparently off to the east of the kingdom. North it's bounded by the river Wharfe, south by the river Aire. It seems to have stretched from about Leeds to Kirkby Wharfedale/Sherburn.

I must get up there and potter about some day, it really calls to me.

Local ley lines ... I'll do another post *g*. Do you have a feel for the things yourself?

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Yes it is further east, quite a bit - forgot to say. But Hebden Bridge is supposedly quite gorgeous too - had a student who lived there once.

You must be a bit south of both and somewhere in between?

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More about ley lines, please!

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See my journal for 30th May :-)

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