Mucking Out

[jacey]

I've spent all day today mucking out the office in preparation for getting the new laptop up and running and being able to remove a hideous set of slatted Ikea shelves that currently house the tower case for my computer and the all-in-one printer.

And I do mean mucking out - which is by far the most satisfying type of cleaning. It's the first time I've actually been able to move my desk for about five years. (And when I did move it... oh boy!) I filled the Dyson with just the grot from the office carpet and made a huge spider homeless (not that he'll need a home as he's probably in spidery heaven right now).

I've filled three binbags with stuff I previously thought I needed to save and am currently contemplating moving furniture round to make it more friendly and give myself a better working light... trying to figure out a kind of Yorkshire feng shui. (It must be reading 'Demon in the City' that's got me at it.

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[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

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.

[footlingagain.livejournal.com]

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.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

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.

[footlingagain.livejournal.com]

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.