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Title: Gotta shock
Post by: kenkew on February 03, 2008, 15:07:22

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.

Title: Re: Gotta shock
Post by: calendula on February 03, 2008, 15:58:27

:o
ice spider or nice spider

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Post by: tilts on February 03, 2008, 19:06:04

run for your life girls!!

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Post by: posie on February 03, 2008, 19:38:31

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

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Post by: debster on February 03, 2008, 20:05:15

i like spiders ;D

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Post by: Grandma on February 04, 2008, 08:24:24

: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!)

Title: Re: Gotta shock
Post by: greenfinger on February 04, 2008, 11:18:20

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

Title: Re: Gotta shock
Post by: kenkew on February 04, 2008, 13:11:05

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??

Title: Re: Gotta shock
Post by: star on February 05, 2008, 13:29:40

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.

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Post by: Magnolia on February 05, 2008, 13:49:18

Did you touch it?

Did you keep it??

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Post by: calendula on February 05, 2008, 14:09:31

Quote from: kenkew on February 04, 2008, 13:11:05
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

Title: Re: Gotta shock
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on February 05, 2008, 22:19:17

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

Title: Re: Gotta shock
Post by: kenkew on February 06, 2008, 11:30:05

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.

Title: Re: Gotta shock
Post by: telboy on February 06, 2008, 22:24:06

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!

Title: Re: Gotta shock
Post by: kenkew on February 07, 2008, 11:15:10

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

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Post by: Mothy on February 08, 2008, 22:05:05

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

Title: Re: Gotta shock
Post by: calendula on February 09, 2008, 13:00:29

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

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