READ MORE NS&I warning for anyone with over \u00a3350 invested in Premium Bonds<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n“There are a few scents that spiders dislike: cinnamon, mint, lavender and lemon, to name a few,” he said.<\/p>\n
He added: “If you\u2019re looking for a particularly quick fix, you can easily make your own spider repellent.”<\/p>\n
These are easily created by mixing approximately 20 drops of essential oil (choose from lemon, peppermint, or lavender) with water in a spray bottle. With this concoction, target corners and crevices where spiders typically hide.<\/p>\n
“You can also create your own cleaning solution by mixing a 50\/50 solution of white vinegar and warm water, and then add a few drops of your chosen essential oil,” the expert recommended.<\/p>\n
Speaking to the Guardian last year, Nell Frizzell admitted: “As a child, I was as terrified of spiders as I am today by droughts and unfiled tax returns. I would watch in amazed horror as my country-born mother picked up arachnids the size and heft of dogs and calmly threw them out the window.<\/p>\n
“There were whole cupboards I refused to open for fear of spiders. Once, after accidentally walking into a web during a game of hide and seek, I actually vomited at the thought of a spider being close to my skin (they found me quite quickly after that).<\/p>\n
“But then, in my 20s, I lived on my own for the first time. During my year of renting a converted bakery in Leeds (where the storage heaters never worked and I did the washing-up under the electric shower), there were two spiders that lived in the corners of those high, heat-sucking ceilings.<\/p>\n
“I didn\u2019t have a ladder tall enough to reach them \u2013 and I wouldn\u2019t have wanted to touch them even if I could. So I came to accept that as long as they stuck to their domain, ate their fill and never came anywhere near my bed, we could coexist in mutually assured potential terror.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The beginning of autumn brings with it the risk of arachnids and creepy crawlies nationwide.UK households told to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,497,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-426223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-weather","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115208257789124208","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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UK households told to ‘seal entrances’ as epidemic starts to sweep England<\/p>\n