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[Arcadia]

Same here, and our house has been around a lot longer than that. We do get one landing on a screen, from time to time. But never on the sills ... why is that?

[Pseudonym]

I don't have screens, nor do I have birds flying into my windows.

[Carol the Dabbler]

I think it also has to do with where there are trees, plus some other factors. At our apartment, there was a very popular maple tree just a few feet from our bedroom window, which I seem to recall being the main culprit.

 

And we have no trees that close to our house, so it's by no means an exact comparison. But still, we do have a lot of birds around.

[Van Buren Supernova]

Couple of incident of birds flying to the glass in my offices. Poor things.

One time me and colleagues almost wanted to scale the roof (there was a roof below our floor) to retrive the dying but still alive bird. Too bad the thing we stepped on were too fragile that we couldn't do it. And the bird dissapeared a while later. Maybe it woke up and all was good! I hope.

 

 

Anyway, saw you guys mentioned about lifting the spoiler awhile back. Is it happening anytime soon?

[Carol the Dabbler]

The past two series, the ban has been lifted on February 21 and 22, so I expect it soon. Tim will presumably put a warning banner on the page tops again, so nobody gets spoilered by accident.

[Arcadia]

Okay, that does it, you lot are ruining my sanity. Woke up this morning, saw a spider on my blanket, and leapt shrieking out of bed. Grabbed a shoe to whack it with ... and it was a piece of lint.

 

 

 

 

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Serves you right for intended cruelty to arachnids!  :P

[Pseudonym]

Damn that lint! :D

 

I do something quite similar at least a few times a month - I dream there is a spider in by bed and manage to get out of bed, across the room and turn on the light before I actually wake up, where I stand there looking confused, and have to remind myself if there was a spider I wouldn't have known because it was pitch black. 

 

I did have a huge spider in my hair once which I've never quite recovered from. 

[Arcadia]

Serves you right for intended cruelty to arachnids!  :P

 

Hey, he started it!!! Oh wait, no he didn't, because he was just ... never mind.

[Van Buren Supernova]

Eh.. coincidence?

Saw a baseball-diameter spider yesterday, tried to whack it two times and it escaped both. Bit worried for my dog.

I saw similar kind (mostly that size or even bigger quite a number of times) but mostly I was able to kill it. I don't think it's deadly, it's just unsettling because it's big.

 

Okay I want to top this by sharing my mom's experience. Cringe warning.

 

So there was this big spider (different kind) with white pouch. It was a common sight when I was a kid, but I never dealt with it back then. So this happened about two years ago in my current house before I adopted my dog.

 

This spider appeared, it looked very intimidating because of the size, so my mom grabbed an insect spray and sprayed that (poor) creature generously, then while the big spider was still running around, hundreds of tiny little spiders crawled out from that white pouch which was apparently the egg, I suppose.

Ugh.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Poor little critters!  :(

[Van Buren Supernova]

Yah.. but what would you do?

 

I kill a lot of these now that I'm responsible for my home, like last night with ants (those who would leave red painful itchy bumps when they bite) while thinking poor creatures, poor creatures, sorry, sorry.

 

Only at home.

We found all sorts in office: crabs (not sure where they are form!), millipedes, frogs, spiders, and I always try to escort them outside safely.

 

 

Eta: actually I had long dorky discussion with friend, between INTJ and INTP about who is at fault when a snake visited our office. I say human's.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Sounds reasonable to me. If we didn't provide both an entrance and an enticement, they would have neither the ability nor the incentive to enter our buildings. That goes for pretty much all critters.

[Van Buren Supernova]

My argument was that they settled before we did, so they merely come home or visiting their relative. XD

[Pseudonym]

I don't know, ye olde British house spider lives only in houses, and whilst I normally screech for someone to relocate them outside if there is anyone in screeching distance they apparently die if they're outside anyway. 

 

What's this from? I don't remember it. 

 

[Fantasy Lover]

The empty hearse.

[Carol the Dabbler]

... you guys mentioned about lifting the spoiler awhile back. Is it happening anytime soon?

 

The past two series, the ban has been lifted on February 21 and 22, so I expect it soon. Tim will presumably put a warning banner on the page tops again, so nobody gets spoilered by accident.

 

Tim is working on it now.  Please maintain the current anti-spoiler policy just a bit longer, till he has a chance to install the top-of-page alert (so that anyone who is still avoiding spoilers won't be inundated unawares).

[Van Buren Supernova]

Can't wait.

Maybe I can finally try to keep up and stop slacking for S4 then, when it's out in the open.

[Carol the Dabbler]

OK, spoilers are now allowed! The staff will be removing the word "spoilers" from thread titles, moving some threads, and combining others.

 

But as Tim says on that banner at the top of the page, please continue doing your best to stay on-topic in each thread.

[Pseudonym]

Yeeeey!

 

Just came across this. Thought it was pretty funny because it's like everyone is judging Mycroft for his failures. :D

 

[Van Buren Supernova]

:D

Poor Mycroft. Hope he carries his umbrella to swat everyone.

[Pseudonym]

It's probably tame compared to most countries but we currently have a storm and I just got almost blown across the car park   'Storm Doris.' No snow here though sadly. 

[Carol the Dabbler]

I assume Doris is a wannabe hurricane, blown up from the southwest.  Do you ever get actual hurricanes there, or tornadoes, or other seriously damaging winds?

[Pseudonym]

Nope. We have the odd teeny tiny tornado, but nothing like in America. We don't get that much extreme weather luckily. We do get winds that blow off roofs etc now and again but it's pretty rare. 

[Doe]

Are you interested in astrology?

 

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