Gotta shock

[kenkew]

Went to read the water meter last week. Lifted up the wooden hatch and spotted this in the gloom.
When I got brave and turned the hatch over, I saw it a bit clearer.

[kenkew]

[calendula]

 :o
ice spider or nice spider

[tilts]

run for your life girls!!

[posie]

OMG! that's gonna give me nightmares!  I think I'd move lol  ;D

[debster]

i like spiders  ;D

[Grandma]

 :o That is really horrific! :o  However, having seen what some of you clever folk can do to a photo with your 'digi-tweaking', I'm just not going to believe it.

(But I won't be checking my water meter ever again - just in case!)

[greenfinger]

what exactely is it? a frozen spider covered in ice or some kind of rare breed that sucks your brain out through your nostrils????
yukyukyuk i don't like it

[kenkew]

It was dead and the pic is real, no tweaking. It wasn't covered in ice but the water here is very high in calcium. I wonder if that's why??

[star]

That is truely amazing Ken, poor wee thing. I love my 8 legged friends.

It certainly looks calcified, but what is strange is the 'glow' in the dark.

[Magnolia]

Did you touch it? 

Did you keep it??

[calendula]

It was dead and the pic is real, no tweaking. It wasn't covered in ice but the water here is very high in calcium. I wonder if that's why??

this happens a lot in caves, apparently - calcified spiders, beautiful picture though

[Robert_Brenchley]

If you get water which is really lime-rich, then anything left in it for a while gets coated.

[kenkew]

There is a lot of lime in the water here. I'm guessing that it drank the water from around the stop-tap and the calcium has set in it's joints. Certainly looks that way.

[telboy]

Weird Ken.
In Matlock in the 60's, a guy ran a 'calcifying well'.
He charged 10 shillings to leave an article for a month or so in a spray shower of the local thermal water. Amazing transformation of tophats/cheap plastic knomes/old kettles etc..
Would be a millionaire now if he had kept it in the family!

[kenkew]

I think Mother Shipton's dripping well is still functioning at Knaresbough. Now owned I believe by Paul Daniels.

[Mothy]

I like that...not a lot!!! ;D

[calendula]

I though Paul Daniels was already calcified or was it just a rumour  ;D