Last night, after work, I came home (4am), got out of my monkey suit and settled down to watch some telly to wind myself down before going to bed.
Sitting on the carpet in shorts and a t-shirt I felt a tickling across my leg just above the knee and was in the process of reaching down to scratch what I thought was a wee itch when I spied THIS running across my bloody leg!!
I've never seen a spider in real life so bloody big! I actually got a wee fright.
You know that kind of wee fright when you actually catch yourself letting out an audible 'yelp'?
One of those.
So I set about catching the blighter.
That was my first mistake.
This was no ordinary spider .. it stood up on it's back legs and made wee hopping movements towards me as if trying to attack me.
The wee glass it's imprisoned inside isn't a wee glass at all. it's a bloody
PINT TUMBLER!!
And it's not a twenty pence piece for comparison .. Oh No!
IT'S A TEN BOB BIT!!!!
And when inside the pint tumbler its legs were touching all sides of the lip of the glass while still bent.
Without exaggeration it's legs were as thick as pencil leads and it used them not to run away the way most British spiders would but to run straight toward me very, very aggressively.
It even scared the utter, UTTER crap out of my cat who normally kills and eats any insects mercilessly.
My question is .. do any of the HGers who are wildlife knowledgable know if this is a native spider species or some dodgy imported rascal that I should have squishded instead of throwing it out of the bathroom window at arms length? ...
like a big girl.
I like him ... He says "Okie Dokie!"