Arm tickle
Brush over
Small sensation
Look and see
A tiny speck
Of fluff…
With legs
Sprung out
Each side
Sorry spider
Sits crouched
On the table
In the centre
Of a gigantic
Room I
Wonder where
You’ll make
Your home
Resting from
The brush off
You pick
Yourself up
And trundle
Across the
Tablecloth
Climb down
The flowing
Edge and
You’re on
Your way!
© Jennifer Winterburn
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I’ve been watching a spider outside my window for about 2 years now. First noticed with a body the size of a 12pt full point. Now he/she is the size of a 12pt ‘o’, plus legs, from catching much bigger flies in a cunningly strung web, wrapping them up and eating them. Glad he/she is not a lot bigger!
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Spiders are amazing! Sometimes they surprise me, which I don’t much care for, but they always fascinate me, especially those giant lumbering house spiders! I have a special spider-catching pint glass + Timothy Taylor coaster to help them on their way, and once in a while I find one too big to fit! I am so glad we don’t have those giant beasties like Australia 🙂
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I use my Timothy Taylor coaster for my Yorkshire tea and, as this evening, for a g&t. It’s getting tatty so a trip to a TT pub is called for – any excuse in this weather!
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