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Biting my ankle was out of order.
And I know it was you.
And it bled.
Which is very inconvenient, given the sheets were white and it was four a.m. and I should have been asleep. Would have been asleep.
Hell, you should have been asleep. In case you haven’t noticed, it is England in January. Minus two degrees. What happened to hibernation?
I, at least, was in bed. Okay, I suppose you were too, but I didn’t invite you. Find your own.
I don’t even know what you are. A mozzie I would know about. It would itch.
You, on the other hand, appear to operate by stealth attack, leaving only the warm, unfamiliar trickle of blood down the ankle to alert me to the invasion of my sheets.
If, by any chance, you were the eight legged monstrosity currently rather flattened and feet up beside the bed, I am sorry. The bare foot was completely inadvertent, I do assure you.
If you are anything else, I would appreciate it if you would vacate the premises.
Immediately.
It might, indeed, be advisable on several counts, given the currently lurgied state of your host. Who knows what horrors eating me might visit upon your health after all?
Can bugs get bugs?
Do you really want to find out???
Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
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I didn’t 🙂
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Haha. Spiders are awesome at least!
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I’ll give you that. Fascinating creatures.
I just don’t want to share my bed with one.
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I do not think anyone wants to. If they are in my room, that does not really bother me.
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They can be anywhere except above my head or between the sheets when I sleep.
And preferably not in the cereal box I left unfastened…
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…could have been worse, Sue… just think if you were living at Loch Ness! 🙂
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I always fancied Drumnadrochit, Seumas… there’s a waterfall not far away perfect for early morning showers 🙂
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Well, that told the little sod, Sue – Gordon Bennett, what a bloody cheek, to actually cosy up and bite you! Glad you stepped on it! Yuk! xxx
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I wasn’t, Ali… not in bare feet! xxx
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Are you feeling lucky, Plunk? x
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That’s octicide! You can get five years for a squashed spider.
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I’m sure the memory will stay with me longer than that…
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I bet it does. That just freaked out my wife LOL
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I’m not sure Ani was any too pleased by the noises that filtered downstairs either!
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LOL And there’s your readers thinking you an angel.
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Don’t make me choke on my coffee, Richard… 😉
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Hilarious! I just LOVE ‘Can bugs get bugs?’ I hope whatever lurgy is bothering you soon passes, and that any intending visitors heed your words and ‘vacate the premises’! Thanks for starting my morning with a laugh 🙂 And great that you found a funny side…not a nice way to be woken in the middle of the night… Happy, Healthful blessings, Harula xxx
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I hope it soon passes too! Getting atad fed up with the whole affair now 😉 xxx
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Crikey made me jump did that! It looks so like the mother-in-law – uncanny!
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Thankfully, I don’t have one… 😉 Though I am one…
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My one snuffed it yet that pic you put up is the dead ringer!
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In that case, Mike, I won’t ask how…
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LMAO! I luv this!
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🙂
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Hope you got the little bugger.
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So, Charles, do I.
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My worst nightmare. I think I’m going to give up sleeping and just watch for bugs. Shiver …
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I think I’d have rather slept through the whole sorry affair!
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Sue, spiders are so hateful that way… I hate how they creep around, crawling up unsuspecting sheets fallen on the floor. Taking advantage, they are without scruples and I am convinced they are just greedy. They don’t HAVE to take a bite as well as a sniff. They could just keep it to themselves… 🙂
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Yep, that is pretty much my feeling as well 🙂
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Been there, had that done to me. Did you have a bad reaction? Last time I had to be put on prednisone. Only you could write a lyrical story about being bitten by a spider!
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Whatever got me last night, Noelle, only left a hole. Had it been an out-of-season mozzie I’d be swelling up like a small balloon.
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Oh dear, I have a bite but never thought of spiders! Didn’t know whether to accuse Arthur of fleas or a mosquito that was seen in the bedroom. Unseasonal things happen so often these days – there have been a bee, a hornet and two butterflies in the house in the last fortnight.
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I know… I had a very large and active wasp the other day… which is odd considering I didn’t see any all summer!
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Hahaha >>> “Can bugs get bugs?”???????????? Come on, you know this rhyme, Sue –
“Big fleas have little fleas,
Upon their backs to bite ’em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas,
and so, ad infinitum.”
0nly in your case it was ad ankle … 🙂 A
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You calling me a flea, Adrian??? 🙂
I’d forgotten that one…
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Poor you! We had huge biting spiders in africa but i wouldn’t want one in my bed!
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I have no idea whether this was actually a spider or not… but whatever it was, I hope it isn’t planning a secong night in my bed!
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Dreadful – hope you got the culprit!
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So do I!
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Hi Sue. copy this link into your browser and you will see that my recommendation of a pet Kingfisher may solve your spider problem. These huntsmen spiders usually are about as large as a man’s outstretched hand. They are common throughout Australia and happily cohabit with humans inside houses. Huntsmen creep around ceilings and walls hunting mozzies, flies etc. We have had the odd one visiting that spends up to a week inside doing the rounds of the rooms. If they stay out of trouble we call them Wolfgang and even leave dead insects for them but If they are particularly large or frisky we catch them in a jar and throw them over the fence into our neighbours. These spiders also love to travel and often find their way inside cars where they seem to especially relish flattening out under a folded sun visor. Many a time one flicks down the visor whilst driving into a setting sun and discovers a large spider running across your thighs. The occasional car accident caused by a huntsman spider appears on our news reports. A highly strung friend of ours who dislikes spiders of any kind had a sun visor experience driving along a freeway. She immediately abandoned her car ( after braking harshly onto the verge fortunately) to be rescued by a passing truck driver. https://geoffpark.wordpress.com/2015/01/05/the-big-breakfast-please/
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Now Denis, I like my younger son… I enjoy his company… were I to keep a pet spider I would never see him again 🙂
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Mind, a kingfisher… that would be wonderful, except I don’t think it would be fair to keep one here. Very rare in this area due to lack of water.
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What a bugger! Sorry, couldn’t help that one. 🙂 I hope whatever it is got out of your space as fast as its little wings or legs could carry it and that you’re not still dealing with the bite mark left behind. No fun.
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Whatever it was seems to have beaten a hasty retreat and left little trace 🙂
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