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Brenda wrote: "Haha! That was actually the catalyst..we have lots of spiders, especially redbacks so while I don't mind killing them, the sight of this thing was enough to make me phone them!"Creepy! Hadn't seen or heard of such a thing before Brenda.
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Me either! Other than Liam's photos before...
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A house centipede, Bette. :P"
This one looked a little different to that Liam...maybe a young one or something!
Brenda wrote: "Liam wrote: "Bette wrote: "What is that???? Creepy!!!"A house centipede, Bette. :P"
This one looked a little different to that Liam...maybe a young one or something!"
It has a lot of legs and is just as ugly, close enough as far as I'm concerned!
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The above in a tall glass was twice as long as this entry on wikipedia!
ACK Brenda! Do spoiler tags work in discussion groups? Cos that thing NEEDS them.
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Haha! It sure does!! We are so creeped out here at the moment!
Ugh I hate them hate them hate them hate them give me spiders ANY day over centipedes.
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I agree! It doesn't bother me killing redbacks, it's the sheer size of these monsters that freaks me out!!!
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I hope it doesn't have any family members around!
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Especially ones this size!
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I hope it doesn't have any family members around!"
I hope so to Brenda. That's the last thing you want to see."
I keep thinking things are crawling on me! O__O!
I can understand how you would feel like that Brenda. uk! Made me shiver just seeing the photo.
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Can't wait to go and hear Tim Winton talk about his new book. Definitely one of my fav. Aussie authors!!
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Ashleigh wrote: "Did it last night. :) been quiet because I've been dealing with that drama over a Christmas catch up. Sigh...one says my best friend and I can't make up our minds though I've hardly said anything, ..."I'm sure your Christmas catch up will work out eventually Ashleigh. Sounds like the advent calendar will keep you busy, I look forward to seeing it once you've finished it :)
Brenda wrote: "And this has just decided to wriggle across our floor!!! OMG! It's the biggest I've ever seen...where are they coming from????Is this the moment when I tell you that I found one of these in our bed? We were living in the Pilbara at the time when I woke up in the middle of the night with a burning toe. Thought I'd just slept funny, but when the burning didn't stop, I decided to check my toe out, and discovered a couple of large red fang marks! At that point I totally disintegrated the bed, and one of those came crawling out....
A quick check in the first aid book, and an icepack and everything settled down, but suffice to say, centipedes are not my favourite things!
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Is this the moment when I tell you that I found one of..."
Oh Leonie that is so awful! How did you even go back to bed? Fortunately we haven't seen anything else since then!
I was a bit paranoid about it for a while - you know how it goes - my brain was convinced that the bed was actually a centipede habitat!Some years later we were in Broome and watched an epic battle between a huge centipede and a frilled neck lizard. They battled and wrestled for probably half an hour, and it only ended when the frilled neck lizard bit the centipede's head off and ran off crunching it down.
It's how it seems to go if you've ever lived in remote Australia. Everyone I've met has a good stock of creepy-crawly/reptile infested stories.
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Some years later we were in Broome and watched an epic batt..."
I can totally believe that..checking the bed every night.
The laws of nature are amazing that's for sure. Our inhabitant also lost his head, but not by any lizard!
Leonie wrote: "Got inspired and blogged about the centipede ;) http://leonierogers.wordpress.com"Write that Pilbara memoir, Leonie. I bet it'd be an interesting read. :)
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Great blog post Leonie! So creepy though....ahh Australia!! Gotta love it:)
Thanks guys! Yes, gotta love Australia. It's a unique place, full of unique beasties.
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I checked out a few vids on yt of Centipedes. Wow they are tough buggers. Scorpions and a few Snakes had no chance against it."
All this news is NOT good for me....what if he had some relatives?? ;)
Brenda wrote: "Michael wrote: "Excellent blog post Leonie.I checked out a few vids on yt of Centipedes. Wow they are tough buggers. Scorpions and a few Snakes had no chance against it."
All this news is NOT go..."
Let's hope that he didn't, but if it's any consolation, the one that bit me was the only one inside at that time...
No wonder vistors from overseas are scared of our little creatures LOL
Leonie wrote: "I was a bit paranoid about it for a while - you know how it goes - my brain was convinced that the bed was actually a centipede habitat!
Some years later we were in Broome and watched an epic batt..."
How very different from Lincolnshire, UK!
Some years later we were in Broome and watched an epic batt..."
How very different from Lincolnshire, UK!
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Recommendations: I've been checking through my Literary Fiction recs and books kept coming up because I had read Saving CeeCee Honeycutt.I'm sorry but there is no way this novel is Literary Fiction! But some people have shelved it as such as so GR keeps crowding my recs with book like that.
A case of recs being skewed because books are 'incorrectly' shelved. Does this happen to anyone else? I mentioned this as a new topic in GR Feedback.
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Bette wrote: "Recommendations: I've been checking through my Literary Fiction recs and books kept coming up because I had read Saving CeeCee Honeycutt.I'm sorry but there is no way this novel is Literary Ficti..."
Hey Bette, if you want to be able to get recommendations from Goodreads that may be more trustworthy than using recommendations from the Literary Fiction genre, you could try creating your own Literary Fiction shelf (maybe call it My Literary Fiction to distinguish it from GR's LF genre) and put all the books on it that you've read that fit your definition of Literary Fiction. Then, when you go to the Recommendations page, use your "My Literary Fiction" shelf to look at for recommendations. Does that make sense??! I'm not sure if it would work, but you could try it...
Kathryn wrote: "Bette wrote: "Recommendations: I've been checking through my Literary Fiction recs and books kept coming up because I had read Saving CeeCee Honeycutt.I'm sorry but there is no way this novel is ..."
Kathryn, I have done that but sadly GR keeps throwing me up books shelved by people as Literary Fiction which are not Literary Fiction:(
Another example is The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry; it's one of my favorite books but there's no way it is Literary Fiction.
Oh, I could keep grumbling till the cows come home... :)
On a lighter note!I went for a two hour horse ride yesterday morning; first time in six months and my bum is aching this morning:):)
Bette if you're looking for some decent literary fiction and I'm pretty sure it IS literary fiction I would highly recommendAlex Miller. Not sure if you've read any of his books but he writes beautifully and most of his books linger for quite a while once you are done. Also he's very good at writing from a female perspective. Going off topic...Wow!!! A two hour horse ride. That's amazing. I don't even think I could get on a horse anymore..let alone stay on for that long!!!
Ah well, it was just a thought - sorry it didn't work for you :-(
Michael wrote: "Don't forget if you havn't already to put your clocks forward one hour before you go to bed. :)"My mum went around and changed all the clocks before she went to bed, and then before I went to bed I went around and changed all the clocks, not realising that she had, so we had a very confusing Sunday morning.
No but I did have to wake up early. Turns out I woke up too early.
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My mum went around and changed all the clocks before she went to bed, and then befo..."
LOL!! That is too funny Liam!!!
Liam wrote: "Michael wrote: "Don't forget if you havn't already to put your clocks forward one hour before you go to bed. :)"My mum went around and changed all the clocks before she went to bed, and then befo..."
Oops!
I staggered to my computer at what I thought was 8:30, found it was 7:30, and then went back to bed, and slept until 9:30.I'm good at this.
Liam wrote: "My mum went around and changed all the clocks before she went to bed, and then before I went to bed I went around and changed all the clocks, not realising that she had, so we had a very confusing Sunday morning."Ha ha... priceless. :)
It takes a few days to get used to Daylight Saving. At first I kept thinking that it's *really* ....o'clock.
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I'm still saying that!
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A house centipede, Bette. :P