Saturday 6 December 2014

RIP Spiddy


It is with great sorrow that I have to announce the death of our beloved bathroom spider, Spiddy. He was only about 2 millimetres wide, but he leaves a great hole in our lives.

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  1. I HATE spiders ! The only good spider is a dead spider, no matter what size they are !

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    1. You would have liked this one - what a sense of humour he had.

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  2. Did you read Phillip King in yesterday's Graudian Review? Something about marble.

    Oh, sorry, this isn't Facebook is it. My mistake. I don't like spiders either and have lots of methods for killing them scattered around the house in case I get shut in a room alone with one.

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    1. No, I didn't read that, because I almost never read newspapers. R4 is all I depend on, though there is far too much about 'the economy - stupid', right now.

      I can sort of understand arachnophobia, but you must understand that it means 'the fear of', not 'the hatred of'.

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    2. I have fear and hatred.
      You might like the Phillip King piece because you know about touching and feeling statues, I assume.

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    3. I do, but it isn't necessary for non-sculptors to touch and feel them, no matter what you are told. For instance, all ancient Greek marble statues were painted.

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    4. Neither he nor I said it is. Have you read it? I think not. I was thinking of you as one person who understands making things to another

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    5. I've already said that I have not read it, so the meaning is lost on me. Sorry.

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    6. You could look it up on line. You might want to go to the exhibition.

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    7. Why would I want to do that? As I keep saying, I don't read newspapers.

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    8. If you're not interested I won't bother. Are you only interested in bloody candlesticks? Anyway Phillip King is a sculptor just for your information.

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  3. That may not be a dead Spiddy, it could be his empty shell, he could return bigger & better

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    1. No, I know a ghost when I weigh one, and this is a cadaver.

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  4. Hester is right. If it has a tiny violin on its back, it's a brown recluse or fiddleback spider which can rot tissues. I know because they are lurking everywhere in the dark recesses where I live. Only spider (I forgot the large Wolf spiders) I squish whenever I find one.

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    1. I think - and hope - that we do not have the fiddle-playing spiders in this country - yet. If I hear music coming from the bathroom, then I will gird my gonads with steel.

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  5. I have fear and hatred too....as Rachel says!

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