Close encounters of the eight-legged kind

Redbacks - infamous and notorious spiders of the kind that linger underneath things (most famously the dunny in the days when the toilet was in a little shed down the garden).

Spiders of the kind that can kill with one bite, though to be honest they can only kill with one bite if you are hyper allergic to the venom. Most likely you will need a trip to casualty, be in pain and feel sick should you get bitten. But you don't want to have to get bitten to find out whether you're the trip to casualty and feel a bit sick and sore for a while kind of person, or the hyper allergic kind of person.

So, you can imagine our reaction when one of the little dears crawled out from the gas fire in the front room.

This gas fire has been kindly lent to us by friends, and had been sat in their garage for a while, quietly gathering dust, and as it turned out, Redbacks.

Anway, there was a bit of jumping about and 'get that thing out of here' from me, the application of a fair amount of Mortein (bug killer) and the Redback left the house in the sort of state that meant it wasn't going to be bothering anyone ever again.

A potential calamity avoided, though I now have a guilt complex for hastening the spider to the end of its life quite so quickly??

Just don't tell Grandma, ok? Or Emma..... Or Tom......

Cheryl x