Stand-off in the Kitchen

by Melinda J. Irvine23 August 201823 August 2018 5 Comments

I don’t wish to kill you Mr Spider
But I don’t wish Jerry to be bitten either …

Written by Melinda J. Irvine

Melinda J. Irvine is a freelance writer, poet, and blogger — writing slick sales copy for clients from all over the world. And blogging poetry. In her spare time, Mel is busy building (and writing) a free online learning centre for the marginalised kids of Estancia, Philippines.

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grumpytyke says:

25 August 2018 at 1:31 pm

A dilemma indeed. We don’t have dangerous spiders in the UK though some can bite. I try to trap them and put them outside. I’d feel really bad about killing such amazing creatures. I have no such inhibition about swatting the mosquitoes here in Romania!

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1. Melinda J. Irvine says:
  
  1 September 2018 at 8:32 pm
  
  i really don’t like killing anything but i dont have a lot of compassion for cockroaches
  
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ksbeth says:

23 August 2018 at 7:54 pm

yikes!

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1. Melinda J. Irvine says:
  
  24 August 2018 at 7:36 am
  
  yep and that’s just one of them hahaha
  
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