I share Sen’s dislike of spiders - I don’t think I have a phobia, but I’m certainly far from comfortable with them - and Mrs. Backwoodsperson is the same. However, we will not harm a spider (apart from those dirty, shit-eating critters, flies, I won’t harm any creature deliberately) and we have our ‘spider-tumbler’ on the kitchen window-sill which we use to catch spiders, slip an envelope or stiff piece of paper under the tumbler, turn it over with the spider in it, kept there by the envelope, and take it outside to find a new home in the garden.

A trick Mrs B learned at the office (where they have spiders the size of dinner plates which are faster than a race-horse).