Arachnophilia

[steepholm]

Those of you who read my tale of woe a couple of months ago, about how I'd been locked out of my bookcase for months because of a missing key, may like to know that the truant has now turned up.

Today my daughter and I got the Halloween decorations out of their cupboard, ready for her forthcoming party (I will be banished to my room for the duration). Amongst them was an inflatable spider, and poking from the hole used to attach it to some kind of hanger was this...



It seems we'd hung the spider from the bookcase key last Halloween, then packed it carefully away with the key still attached.

I have now opened my bookcase and given my books and my Aslan a cuddle. Meanwhile, we decided to go with a different spider this year...

Comments

[kalypso]

Delighted that the key has reappeared before you had to resort to violence. And very impressed by your Shelob.

[sovay]

Meanwhile, we decided to go with a different spider this year...

I just like that sentence.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

:)

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Eucatastrophe!

Nine

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

"What a fool," quoth he, "am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle."

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

"It seems we'd hung the spider from the bookcase key..."

That's got quite a rhythm. Perhaps there should be a song?

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Agreed! There's a building song there somewhere! :o)

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Where's Bernard Cribbins when you need him?

[nightspore.livejournal.com]

Congratulations -- so glad you didn't have to take it apart. Me, I always find the key the day after I do something drastic.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Me too. That's partly why I delayed so long - a ghostly vision of the Sword of Sod's Law dangling...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I'm pleased it has turned up :-)

[ooxc.livejournal.com]

I have a bookcase just like that - well, it was just like that until the top got damaged - and a very similar key - wonder if they are exchangeable?

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Quite possibly. I don't think high security is the key's prime purpose.

[oldefashion.livejournal.com]

"Who is this cuddlesome Asian she's found and not told me about?" I fumed, until I read this post more carefully.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

This one has sharp corners, and isn't really cuddly at all! (It's the unofficial name of the Mythopoeic Awards.)