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Spider webs

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GT85
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Spider webs

Post by GT85 »

Fed up walking into them and having them wrapped around my face and then 5 mins later that feeling of something crawling around your head/neck :evil/mad
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postslippete
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Re: Spider webs

Post by postslippete »

Unable to deliver - Arachnophobia!!
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GoingRoundTheBend
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Re: Spider webs

Post by GoingRoundTheBend »

I know exactly how you feel, im sure the little critters weren't this busy making webs last year.
I tend to swat the webs in a machete stylie with the letters, must look a right loon going up a path doing this :crazy:

The other week I managed to get the spider on the letter and post it in the letterbox :shock:
glenfiddich
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Re: Spider webs

Post by glenfiddich »

i was like the tourettes demented postie today at every third house swatting at my head and swearingImage
ebbzie
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Re: Spider webs

Post by ebbzie »

Can anyone answer the Question - you walk up the path waving the letters like mad in front of you, post them and on the way back up the path WAM cob web right in the face!!! how does this happen???
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IloveMYredTROLLEY!
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Re: Spider webs

Post by IloveMYredTROLLEY! »

ebbzie wrote:Can anyone answer the Question - you walk up the path waving the letters like mad in front of you, post them and on the way back up the path WAM cob web right in the face!!! how does this happen???
The spider made a web while you were at the door

AND

you did not pause after delivering the letters, to filter your mail bundle for the next delivery point before heading back down the path (waiving the next address' mail in front of you).
trevjim
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Re: Spider webs

Post by trevjim »

Walked up to a gate the other day, went through, felt a 'branch' brush across my hair, walked a couple of steps and thought hang on, there is no tree there, turned around to see a huge and now damaged web with a huge spider wondering whats just happened.
k979aaa
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Re: Spider webs

Post by k979aaa »

I hate them spinning their webs in our path each and every day this summer and that's just the management and you get it again on the walk.
gosickwithstress
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Re: Spider webs

Post by gosickwithstress »

Zippo lighters work well on the Webs, And you can burn the spiders too........ -> :oops: <-
Lounge Lizard
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Re: Spider webs

Post by Lounge Lizard »

dazmolesey wrote:Zippo lighters work well on the Webs, And you can burn the spiders too........ -> :oops: <-
- and the Door To Doors. :crazy: :no no
Slysi16
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Re: Spider webs

Post by Slysi16 »

Can anyone answer the Question - you walk up the path waving the letters like mad in front of you, post them and on the way back up the path WAM cob web right in the face!!! how does this happen???

Yes it's a spiritual thing !!!!!
bustedflush
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Re: Spider webs

Post by bustedflush »

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the swarms of craneflies emerging from the grass too...feast time for the spiders.
Today, after the first rain for nearly 3 weeks there were great big slugs over many paths, squelching under my trainers and making me slip.
Jpro747
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Re: Spider webs

Post by Jpro747 »

yeah and the next day they've rebuilt their webs in exactly the same place, only for it to be swiped down again :chuckle
stevo302
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Re: Spider webs

Post by stevo302 »

Spider webs on hanging baskets.

Double whammy of tourettes.