So, who wants to help ... to instaurate the cellar?

Not The Archers
1601

Hurrah forran Punctured Pisc.

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1602

Isn’t being, well, watertight fairly crucial for a Fish?
OIP

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1603

We had our flu jabs on Thursday at a local pharmacy. No ill-effects.

Now then - prescient, or wot? My Friday earworm was There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly (sung by Burl Ives). So, guess who inhaled a flying creature while out walking, today? It feels as though it’s still in my pharynx, although I have (with much retching) thoroughly investigated. Yuk.

Soo xx

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1604

Yuk indeed, Soo

Do have some Gin, to soothe yer froat & noives…

Carinthia.xx

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1605

How kind, Carinthia xx I may take to wearing a face-covering while walking in the countryside.
Soo xx

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1606

A fetching veil appended to a daring little hat?

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1607

A Splendid Idea, Fishers!
Soo xx

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1608

…it will wash this buttered spider down nicely, and you’ll soon be right as rain.

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1609

I have been and hunted suitable rocks to use as mermaid perches

And hunted new shoesies for the Bull

And the butcher’s where I got the week’s meat and thence home

Via the battle bonk to dispose of evidence

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1610

Buttered spider :nauseated_face:
It was bound to happen…
Soo xx

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1611

Also sovereign agin jaundice, dear Bee, so don’t knock it.

Spiders are topmost in my mind at the moment. One the size of a smallish Labrador has taken up residence. I was going to say ‘of a Shetland pony’, but that would have been an exaggeration.

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1612

I’m not swallowing that!

Do you have a spider catcher?
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We find ours to be very useful.

Soo xx

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1613

Many people swear by them, I know.
I use a tumbler and some paper/card or a galvanised bucket and sheet of marine ply, depending ;- )

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1614

The advantage of the spider catcher is that it maintains a social distance between one and the intruder.

Soo xx

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1615

Fair point, little Bee.
Gxx

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1616

Transparent is good; it eliminates the nasty possibility that the spider may have scuttled sideways just as the receptacle went down and be sitting tittering under a bit of furniture as you manoeuvre the cardboard and teacup to the door and throw nothing whatever out into the garden.

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1617

Well at least it’s not the other way round…

I remember the Jumping Spiders of Woking. Put a pint glass over 'em and you’d hear a “tink tink tink” as they bounced off the top.

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1618

Not a “tink-flump-tink-flump-tink-flump”?

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1619

I think I got off lightly with the fly, frankly. Countin’ me blessin’s, I am.

Before the arrival of the spider catcher, I deployed the glass tumbler method as DD jumped onto a chair, shrieking. I noticed that it was fairly inactive and commented on this. DD pointed out that the spider’s head was on one side of the glass while its body…

Soo xx

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1620

You did. My father never forgot (and he had over 80 years in which to forget) the day a wasp flew into his open mouth. He never cycled with his mouth open again.

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