Night fright!

silverfish also like paper ,dark places,old wallpaper,clothes.we put clove,bay leaves in places like cupboards or boxes of stored items.works great
also diluted cedar oil in a sprayer works for many of the invaders.

Isn't it better to cope with slugs and spiders instead of exhibitions of hysterical behaviour? Is it a cause of pride to be unable to cope?

Ugh I hate slugs as well, we live in the country and see a lot. We had been away for a few days and when we returned a slug crawled out of the overflow in my kitchen sink, I made my poor husband dismantle everything and clean it all with disinfectant. We get hideous orange ones here in France.

Alexa you are just too, too sensible! I know what you mean though. So long as I have kitchen paper, a swatter, a hard shoe, my marigolds or any other part of my 'intruder kit' all is fairly easily dealt with. Just not too over keen on things that move sporadically and unexpectedly!

My trick with spiders in the bath (I feel sorry for them) is to drape a trail of toilet paper into the bath and let it hang down the outside. They are akways gone in the morning I know not where.

You used to be able to buy spider ladders to hang in the bath! I had one for years and bought them for the DCs when they moved out. For some reason, you can't seem to get them any more.

Like OldMeg, I do a dangle! Just a piece of string will do, it gives just enough purchase for the spider/s to be able to get themselves out of the bath.

The downside, of course, is that while they're in the bath you know where they are. Once they've climbed out .........

lemongrove I will be checking the toilet bowl every time I go for the rest of my life!
I wasn't hysterical btw Alexa. I dealt with it and only told DH in the morning.

We too had a slug which used to emerge during the night from under the dishwasher - if I came down especially early I would find it on the kitchen floor and throw it out in the garden. When we did the kitchen a couple of years ago they found an old washer outlet pipe open behind the sink - not seen one since. I've never found one in the toilet though - good job you spotted it - I have a light that comes on in the dark shining into the bowl but without my glasses I would have probably still have sat on it

My poor DIL went to pick up a 'leaf' from her kitchen floor the other day - it jumped up and frightened her to death - a frog had come in the open kitchen door!!

That reminds me of a scare I had over 30 years ago. I was in the kitchen, and lifted the washing up bowl out of the kitchen sink to find a big black LEECH!! Once I'd got over the shock, I managed to flush it away, then got on the 'phone to the local Water Company. They were a bit dismissive, saying it couldn't possibly be a leech, they couldn't come through the water main system, but I knew jolly well what it was, and came to the conclusion it must have come up from the outside drain. Leeches can be quite acrobatic, and that is the only conclusion I could come to.

I initially wondered if my toilet bowl invader was a leech but it had horns. Yuk yuk yuk again.