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i grew up on canada and when we had alot of spiders in the house we just went out and got chestnuts put them in a dish on the side and wow no spiders
i do it in the uk also and some people think im nuts but hay it works and i dont have to deal with them
like to keep green so use orange peel in your garden to keep cats and racoons away, a plastic white bag on a stick to keep the deer away
cucumber peal or chalk for aunts and tell your oh no beer allowed in the house and he stays also:eek:

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Pity they hadn't a few ladders:D

If I found a large grass snake in my garden...I would probably be lying untop of it in a dead faint:eek:

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[QUOTE=cj36_ca;5277781]i grew up on canada and when we had alot of spiders in the house we just went out and got chestnuts put them in a dish on the side and wow no spiders
i do it in the uk also and some people think im nuts but hay it works and i dont have to deal with them
like to keep green so use orange peel in your garden to keep cats and racoons away, a plastic white bag on a stick to keep the deer away
cucumber peal or chalk for aunts and tell your oh no beer allowed in the house and he stays also:eek:[/QUOTE

wow, a surreal post

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I've just spat coffee over my keyboard at the idea you can keep aunts away with cucumber peel. Yes, I know it was a typo, and I'm not having a go at that, but I just had this image pop into my head of an elderly spinster throwing up her hands as she walks up the driveway and saying "oh, Heavens-to-Betsy, look at all that cucumber peel, I can't possibly stay here."

I wonder if it works for mothers-in-law too, or if it's just aunts!

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My SIL found one in her garden in the UK. It was an adder actually. It was caught up in the netting on the pond and the cat was playing with it. Well she freaked out, ran inside, hyperventilating. Rang my brother at work and told him to come home to deal with it. He refused. She rang her brother and made him come round to deal with it. He wasnt keen, but he did something with a stick and pushed it back into the woods. SIL hasnt been out in the garden much lately! :rofl:

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I loved it, and the chalk too, wonderful imagery.

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Am I alone in being unable to hear or read the phrase "Heavens to Betsy" without thinking "Birdy" and feeling a creeping smile?

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Is it only the smile that creeps?

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It's a euphemistic smile.

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I agree, lovely mental images! The chalk makes more sense - you can imagine a sort of Miss-Marple-crossed-with-Hyacinth-Bucket character being so overcome with emotion at the sight of a hopscotch game chalked on the sidewalk that she storms off into the sunset, never to be seen again...

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you intrigued me, the reference was completely lost on me, but a quick google reveals all - The Man Who Wasn't There is the one Coen Bros film that's been on my list for "getting round to watching one day" for ages. I'll look out for the line now!

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A wonderful film. Even Ms. Not-another-bloody-noir liked it.

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AHHHHHHH!! Reminds me of the love bugs we get here, they fly around mating, millions of them!! During Spring we get millions of them on our car as we are driving, all squashed to bits. Poor little things, just trying to get some nooky :D:rofl:

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Perhaps you brandish a stick of chalk and wave it at passing aunts?? Would the chalk/cucumber have to be used by a niece or nephew to that aunt??

Or perhaps a chalk necklace worn by these nieces and nephews to ward off sloppy kisses from maiden aunts?

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Yes I did ;)