Copyright Victor and Sarah Potter
So we failed, she turns up on our doorstep, unannounced in her white gloves and all to high standards, walks into the kitchen and what was hanging from the light?
“You wouldn’t believe how quick spider’s build their webs.”
I keep telling her and…
“We just have a high inhabits of eight legged friends,”
but she just laughs.
It doesn’t help that her perfect son is scared of them anyway, so three guesses who gets to capture the damn things?
Bloody perfect up bring and boarding school education and he is scared of spiders where did I find this loon?
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I wanted to get in as soon as possible for Friday Fictioners as I keep missing it otherwise. Thanks as always to Rochelle who forever is managing to find these pictures to inspire us into writing something in 100 words.
Today has been a shite kinda MS day, including failing asleep at my desk and coming home and seemingly sleeping loads that I decided I had better get up and do something!
Lots of positives in my writing journey, so if another has nothing better to do, I have 10,000 words I could do with someone dictating!
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A Story About A Girl 
Maybe his boarding school education told him how to fake fear of spiders so that he could get his wife to do all the messy stuff 🙂
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Sounds like she has impossible standards to keep.
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don’t all mother in laws 😉 thanks for your feedback
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I loved the exasperated voice in this
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Thanks for your feedback, inspired by my mum, who always moans about how un tidy things are!
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I think she might have a job for life there.
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I hope my own daughters-in-law never curse the way I brought my sons up!
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she probably will, lol or for something you have said or done. thanks for your feedback
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Nice little story – loved the narrator’s voice.
Susan A Eames at
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Thank you 🙂
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Presumably, arachnophobia wasn’t on the school’s syllabus! Excellent.
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thank you for your feedback
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I think I’d find a way to turn him loose 🙂
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Dear Claire,
I don’t know that education and fear of spiders have anything to do with one another. At any rate, this doesn’t sound like a match made in heaven. Nicely done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thank you as always for your feedback
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A mothers work is never done. Son is probably a book worm.
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if he is a book worm, then why is he scared of spiders, as they love dust! Spiders and not a book worm.
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Poor mothers-in-law… always getting the raw end of the deal… though mine’s no picnic… 🙂
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Yoi’ve caught the perfect in-law frustrations. Sounds like she needs to make peace with things and people as they are or it will be a constant irritation.
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It sounds like the mother-in-law lives nearby. The daughter-in-law better get used to those visits. When you marry someone you usually marry the family as well. Good writing, Claire. 🙂 — Suzanne
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I’m very lucky in some ways as my husbands mum died not long after we got together, but my mum more than makes up for it
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😀 — Suzanne
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