Post by oliver101 on Apr 27, 2009 7:05:36 GMT
I have just heard this on the radio.
If you want to rid your house of spiders this summer, just place some conkers on all your window sills and the little ones wont venture into your house. Me thinks that it might work in this green and pleasent land but I'm not quite sure about some of the furry ones from ' Down Under ' in the land of Oz. They sure are mighty fine creatures.
Oliver101
If you want to rid your house of spiders this summer, just place some conkers on all your window sills and the little ones wont venture into your house. Me thinks that it might work in this green and pleasent land but I'm not quite sure about some of the furry ones from ' Down Under ' in the land of Oz. They sure are mighty fine creatures.
Oliver101
Hi Oliver.interesting stuff about the spider repellant stuff "conker's" that you have over there which apparently is supposed to keep the little blighters out of the house,in our last place before we moved about 18 months ago you would have needed a few sackfuls of them to have gotten them out of our shed alone (it was a decent size one i must admit 50'x30') although only "Redbacks" which are an Aussie equivilant of a USA Black Widow spider they are not really an aggressive species although quite venomous especially if a child is involved & in fact just about every suburb around Perth they are very common,you will find them under just about every piece of old timber ,old bricks,rubbish,in dark corners,under beer fridges, which we used to keep ours out in the shed,favourite spots include garden furniture in fact we used to get a lot in the house as well,(we used to put a bit of spray around for these) but hey if you let them be they won't worry you at all,i've been bitten three times that i know of & on all of those occasions the spiders have died ;D guess they didn't like the taste of old Simmo,one made me crook(sick) for a couple of days but then i never used to bother to look underneath stuff before i picked it up,anyway Oliver just thought i would run this past you & for anyone that doesn't know what a "conker "is. I can still remember from my childhood days in the UK that they are a large seed which comes out of a spikey pod from a Horse chestnut tree & i remember that we used to bake them in an oven to make them very hard then drill a hole through them ,pass a piece of string through them knotted on the end so as to stop them slipping through, you would then hold them by the chord & your apponent would try to hit it with he's conker also tied up the same way,i'm not sure of the rules after that its been a lot of years but i'm sure plenty of the UK members could fill it in from there,all is well with the Simmo clan over here,best wishes to all Simmo,... just having a quick peep under the chair just in case ;D ;D
