Comments on: 6. Island Thyme Reflections

By: Hilary

Hilary — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:43:00 +0000

Hi Davina .. I too have some photos of my mother’s family in Cornwall dressed in their Edwardian and Georgian finery .. sitting on the beach at St Ives – where they lived. They are great memories ..

all the best Hilary Melton-Butcher
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By: Davina

Davina — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:35:22 +0000

Hi Patricia.
Oh, I didn’t know that spiders can be both sexes! That is interesting. Thanks. Yah, I hear ya… vacationing with kids in a tent in the mud and cold… doesn’t sound like a lot of fun for anyone. I’d love to have an RV to tell you the truth. Tenting it seems to lose the appeal the older I get.

By: patricia

patricia — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:48:22 +0000

Davina,
Most garden spiders that are left are female…many spiders are both sexes!

I used to love rainy days in the summer and that curling down reading sensation…sweet, but after a few years of vacationing in a tent with kids and mud and cold….hmmm not so fun
Great story…
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By: Davina

Davina — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:45:31 +0000

Hi Chris.
You’re welcome. Lol, Herman could have been a HERman :-) I wonder how a person can tell the sex of a spider. Interesting how you decided your spider was a male and I decided that mine was a female.

By: Chris Edgar

Chris Edgar — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:28:48 +0000

Thanks for this story Davina — it’s as well-written as always. It reminds me of my own brief acquaintance with a large spider that lived on the ceiling of a hotel in Rome I stayed in, whom I named “Herman.” It could have been a she, though, I suppose. Then I suppose I would have called her “Hermania.”

By: Davina

Davina — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:59:49 +0000

Hi Cath.
I know… history is all around us. I was so surprised to learn that the bricks used to build our City Hall were made from clay on Bowen Island. It made me realize that we are surrounded by history. Yes, also I wonder what will become of our blogs — can’t help but think a large majority of the material will cease to exist. “Easy come, easy go.”

So… you… don’t want to get wet while you’re in the tub? :-)

Hi Vered.
It was sooo relaxing. Decadent. Come back and visit if you need a “staycation” :-)

Hi Janice.
I love looking at old photographs… even more so than current ones. So true… loving the rain when you have the required tools… that makes a difference.

Spider was indeed alive and well and weird, but I still think of her and wonder if she’s still sitting in her corner of the window. Wynn mentioned to me that she’d considered asking Spider to move on in consideration of her guests, but decided to leave her be… unless of course she heard a loud scream from an arachnophobic guest.