In Memory of Bert the Spider

In memory of Bert the spider, that I flattened by accident.


(really sorry about that Bert,  please don't give me 7 years bad luck)



Be safe in the knowledge Bert, that my foot still hurts where you bit me.

Don't think I could wear this - urgh.  I don't like even jewellery spiders.

It is a cool design still

Great memorial for Bert!  My DH makes me kill any spider that breaches the fortress of the house.  I try to sneak them outside, but he says they already know the way in and must be removed from existence. He also calls them man eaters.....

I love it and would wear it everyday. I have 2 of them, love them!
We never kill them, but remove them gently our of the house... We say 'ragno porta guadagno' alias spider brings earning, so if you want money don't kill them... My Dh by the way refuses to touch them aracnofobia

Bert sez 'Squish'.

Love the gold/silver effect. Quite posh for Bert.

The gold silver combo is nice but the spider is scary

What a cool idea for a bangle - love it! The silver and gold effect is so very eye catching!!

I thought 7 years bad luck was for breaking a mirror? For squishing a spider you should be getting 7 years good luck for the good deed.

Great combo and a fine tribute to Bert.

Very nice!
Was Bert a pet or an unfortunate visitor? I would have flattened him too, but not by accident if he had bitten me.

I love your bangle so much! What a great idea! I enjoy spiders and watching their webs in the yard. But in MY house, they get murdered, sometimes I try and take them outside on a piece of paper, but usually it is murder.

He was a wild house spider that I stood on with bare feet, while making a cup of tea. I had watched him running around the house for about a month, but I thought he's not bothering me, I won't bother him. I actually named him Bert.

I had to flick my foot 3 times to get him off, yep, I squished him good.

Great Bangle! The spider bead is one of my favourites, all year round!
Inside the house I rarely find a spider, the cats eat them up... but outside there are always some and I try to leave them, the cats love to watch them, however... they make quite a bit of dirt on the window sill ...spider poo is hard to remove...

I have a steam cleaner, it nukes everything, including spider poo!

I have a steam cleaner too, quite a monster machine, will try next time...

Great design

By the way since panda posted of her spider bite a few weeks ago - and I had spider nightmares that night, I have a spidey visitor under my ceiling. Maybe it's the reincarnation of Bert, he comes out every night and is watching me right now from above and waits in his web for pray. I tried to catch him once but he immediately fled and hid himself under a wooden panel. But as unlucky as I had been trying to catch him, as unlucky he is as his web is still empty. I hope he starves soon.

I never kill spiders, always catch 'em and put 'em outside.

For those afraid of spiders, I've heard that on earth you're never more than 5 feet away from one. (Not sure that's true, don't think there'd be any in the Arctic and Antarctic, but of course that's not likely where you all are... ) heh heh.

oh Minty
better trampled to death than starved to death...go and find him something to eat, please! remember! Ragno porta Guadagno Spinne am Abend, erquickend und labend.... they only bring you good things!

Catsworld wrote:oh Minty
better trampled to death than starved to death...go and find him something to eat, please! remember! Ragno porta Guadagno    Spinne am Abend, erquickend und labend....  they only bring you good things!

Haha, just looked up again and he is gone (to bed probably) he was just checking his web and it's probably empty again, will climb my table and check it out

Maybe he's used his 8 leg drive to go and raid your fridge!

First he was raiding your fridge, and yes, he might have gone to bed,
to YOUR bed...I would check...

Haha... he's back in his web and not in my bed Maybe I could try to take a picture of him

That is only his grandfather....

I've been living with at least 20 mahoosive spiders for about a month now! I've gotten fed up with keep putting them out...except for the bath ones...every night before my bath I put one out the window, then the next night there's another one sitting in there! My favourite one was the other day when I was washing up and one suddenly peeked over the top of the bowl at me, cheeky so and so . I've had such an overload of them this year, they've been like permanent wall and floor decorations (sometimes they stay in the exact same place for days, I've begun to think of them as ornaments   ), I think I might have got over my phobia completely

Luckily I love the TB spider bead too, I love his drapey legs  and your bangle looks perfect, all graceful and sculptural pandabee RIP Bert