So now I'm a Spider

Arachnophobes are welcome to ignore this posting....

Fiona - she of the flowers - sent me a photo of a spider she'd spotted. As you can see it is a brilliant photo. She asked what it was.


I haven't got my spider books with me so I went on Google image search for the genus I thought it was - Clubonia. Imagine my surprise when I came up with 7 photos of my own out of the eighteen on the first image search page. It might have been less surprising if any of my photos had been a spider but in fact none of them were!


There was however the one portrait of me that I like (taken eighteen years ago). So now, it seems, I'm a spider!

"Wherever we are, there is likely to be at least one spider within a few feet of us." - Stephen Dalton

Sleep well!

 

Lady Bracknell's Spider

I don’t get out much. In fact, if you discount the local shops, the library and the attic sales / flea market it is fair to say I go nowhere when I’m at home! That’s why I go everywhere I can when staying with GB or Helen and Ian. I could do more but the combination of exhaustion and lethargy (two decidedly different things) and pain usually combine to make me not bother. Being no longer able to drive, the prospect of getting the bus to somewhere exciting like Chester Zoo hardly seems worth the effort.

As a result of my stop-at-home tendencies (and the fact that the local free newspaper isn’t delivered to our cul-de-sac) I totally missed seeing the spider which was wandering around Liverpool a couple of months ago. In fact, I knew nothing about it until saw The Perorations of Lady Bracknell Wow, I wish I’d seen it!