My wife is scared of spiders, very scared of spiders, in fact. It doesn’t matter how small or how large the eight legged beasties are they will make her shudder, whimper and then call upon her wonderful husband to apprehend, incarcerate and then dispose of her tormentor. I don’t mind spiders because I hate flies. I really hate flies. But I also hate spider webs.
Our shed has seen better days. It has seen twenty years of better days and each one that passes brings it closer to crumbling in to a pile of saw dust. The spiders, however, love our garden shed, which in turn means that my wife hates going to our little wooden shed, which means that her wonderful husband is the only one to be able to go into the shed and retrieve whatever is required, quite possibly guarded by a spider or two.
With autumn gripping us at the moment the spiders have packed up their webs and moved to their winter vacation home or rather our home. For some reason the shed, which is now crammed with our garden furniture, is no place for a spider to spend the winter it seems.
How the little bugs get in, I have no idea. Somehow the arachnids have the combination to the lock on the shed door and have the strength to push open the cat flap and they all have reservations to stay under our sofa, behind the TV and around the light fittings for the next couple of months.
I’ve heard that conkers are an effective way of dissuading spiders from moving in. Placing them in the corner of the room somehow stops them from roaming about over the carpet. However the conkers rot and cause their own problems.
So do spiders like our shed? I have not a clue, but they seem to have a plan every year to come and make my wife’s life a misery for several months. New shed or old shed the results would probably be the same.
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