Found in the garden

[Spardo]

My lovely moment was not in the garden but in the bidet. I rinsed it with cold water prior to use and was surprised to see a small black spider shoot out of the inflow and swirl around before managing to get a foothold on the side and drag itself out of the water. I carefully placed my finger below him and flicked, intending him to be shot out of the basin, but instead he fell back in the remains of the flow and disappeared down the plughole.

Sadly I closed the plug but then saw him halfway out, opened it and he crawled out. I tried to encourage him onto my finger, but he wouldn't take the lifeline. Finally I got him to crawl on a bit of toilet paper and he was safely deposited outside.

Now don't go telling me that, as a house spider, he won't survive out there. I dare to believe.

[Spectrum]

Lots of these little lovelies on and around the terrace this year. There is a beautifully marked dark green one that l keep trying to snap but it won't sit still
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The one that got away, I think will be the European Green Lizard, the males have a very vivid blue head, we have a few in the garden.

[Doug]

Not in the garden but the house. Mossies and midjies.
We are infested with them.
Went to a friends back in the Lot for a barbie yesterday and they are infested as well. Are you all suffering this year?

[Spardo]

Not in the garden but the house. Mossies and midjies.
We are infested with them.
Went to a friends back in the Lot for a barbie yesterday and they are infested as well. Are you all suffering this year?

No, just the flies, but they are mainly indoors.

[Doug]

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No, just the flies, but they are mainly indoors.
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Shades of the song
Life gets teejus don't it.

Open the door and the flies swarm in.
Close it and I'm sweatin again.

[basquesteve]

My lovely moment was not in the garden but in the bidet. I rinsed it with cold water prior to use and was surprised to see a small black spider shoot out of the inflow and swirl around before managing to get a foothold on the side and drag itself out of the water. I carefully placed my finger below him and flicked, intending him to be shot out of the basin, but instead he fell back in the remains of the flow and disappeared down the plughole.

Sadly I closed the plug but then saw him halfway out, opened it and he crawled out. I tried to encourage him onto my finger, but he wouldn't take the lifeline. Finally I got him to crawl on a bit of toilet paper and he was safely deposited outside.

Now don't go telling me that, as a house spider, he won't survive out there. I dare to believe.

You did/see looking down, all that between your legs you must be slim

[Spardo]

My lovely moment was not in the garden but in the bidet. I rinsed it with cold water prior to use and was surprised to see a small black spider shoot out of the inflow and swirl around before managing to get a foothold on the side and drag itself out of the water. I carefully placed my finger below him and flicked, intending him to be shot out of the basin, but instead he fell back in the remains of the flow and disappeared down the plughole.

Sadly I closed the plug but then saw him halfway out, opened it and he crawled out. I tried to encourage him onto my finger, but he wouldn't take the lifeline. Finally I got him to crawl on a bit of toilet paper and he was safely deposited outside.

Now don't go telling me that, as a house spider, he won't survive out there. I dare to believe.

You did/see looking down, all that between your legs you must be slim

Ha ha, you missed this bit 'prior to use', I was sitting alongside during this rescue operation.

[basquesteve]

A great story it made me laugh the lucky insect had a kind friend

[Spectrum]

Even though we are in the Charente and close to water we have never had mozzies, flies yes but in the kitchen with have a commercial fly killer, the type you see in restaurants/ Butchers etc, it does a good job.

[Spardo]

Apologies for the poor quality but this was my latest rescue from the pond yesterday. Sadly he died a short time later.

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