What was I saying just the other day? That I’m not really a rural girl? That I don’t cope well with creatures.? I did say that, didn’t I? Well apparently my blog gets read out in the garden because it seems an unsavoury group of wildlife got together and decided to play a joke on me.
Upon waking the morning before last, THIS is what was sharing our bedroom. A mere three meters from where we had spent the previous 8 hours, completely unaware. Not only him, but his web..casually draped all over the room. As I stood on the bed to take these photos, I got web in my hair. I kid you not. I would not ever lie about such a thing.
He was promptly removed by my Superhero Father-In-Law and placed out in the garden. (Simply because I couldn’t bear to imagine that thing galloping around the room after being sprayed).
I’ve told Mum to make up the spare room. I’ve informed the children I shalln’t be staying.
It’s been very nice up until this point, thankyou.
O M G
Sheye ~ that is hideous. That is just plain WRONG.
I must say though, in that second pic, you almost make it look OK…. how can anybody make a spider look OK??? Not many could….
YUCK
that seals it. I’m never coming to visit. ever. *shudder*
I hear you! A week after my first was born I thought I saw a brown recluse drop into her cradle. I dramatically whisked her into the front room where we stayed until morning. I packed and went to my mother-in-law’s, insisting I wasn’t coming home until the whole house was sprayed. Ha, maybe hormones were a little involved.
for some reason i can’t see the pictures, but what i really LOVE is your sense of humor!
tara
I am not scared of spiders, but thing is HUGE! I would have freaked out!
hi sheye! i can’t see the pictures either (the last few post that has happened also). sorry to hear about the spider though :O
holy macerole (is that even how you spell that word???) that spider is GINORMOUS!! I usually don’t mind smaller ones either…but that one would have had me running and pulling my kids with me for cover!! (and here you are taking photos of such a thing!) did he/she have fangs? my goodness!
Love the yellow dress series!
rosie……:)
You are so funny! I love the way you wrote “galloping around the room”!!!Give me spiders any day I am absoutely terified of mice!
That was in your room while you slept!!! now that is very SCARY, I get a little freaked when there’s a spider around especially one that big, I don’t blame you for wanting to leave :) xx
I would have cried! There is a reason my idea of “camping” includes a feather bed, jacuzzi, and a shopping mall. Ick!!
OMG!!! You need to call the Flick man ASAP! I have to admit I would not have been so gracious to that spider LOLOL.
Part of my heart stayed in Australia when I moved away… but that is the reason why I likely will not move back.
I will have nightmares tonight! That is one scary bugger!
OH MY GOODNESS!
One of my worst moments was reaching into my purse first thing in the morning, to discover my hand covered in a huge web, and a LARGE (well, not by your standards!) spider hanging out in there…
jbxo
Holy Crap! I cannot believe you put it in the garden, would have been squashed in my house. I always have surface spray in the cupboard and spray it from a very long distance. We haven’t (touch wood) had a big one in the house for a while. They are just waiting though I know to enter.
Oh and sorry not matter how fantastic you photos are I cannot look at it and it scared the crap out of me when I scrolled down!
By the way, my husband has just informed me that this sort of occurrence is “normal” in Australia… is this true? If so – why?!
jbxo
Ok, well now I need to leave your blog until you post something a little less freaky! I don’t care how talented you are – it is not OK! You need to put advisory warning labels on posts like that – yikes…
I hate it when Andrew’s away and I have to be brave Mum and deal with creepy critters – you can be brave while still shrieking and squealing and jumping, y’know ;) And don’t get me started on trying to catch geckos in the girls’ bedrooms and having them drop their squirming tails – eek! Oh, my skin’s crawling now, please post more Ivish or 70s stories or ANYTHING!
I happened to stumble across your blog through “Live Simply So That We May Simply Live” and “Other Than Jeans’” blogs, and once I started reading, I couldn’t stop. You are such an amazing photographer (and person) that I’m at a complete loss for words. Truly an inspiration.
EGADS!!!!!!!!!!! Ugga. I just shivered with dread thinking of that big hairy monster.
xoxo,
Sara Moon
you made your FIL day, you know that don’t you?
the only other thing you could have done to make any man feel more manly would be to get him to open a jar for you.
spiders, jars and taking out the rubbish – the reasons we let men live with us
(there is another really good reason too…oh I meant lifting heavy things, get your mind out of the gutter!)
i have one thing to say to you all – MAN-UP!LOL!
I say that now but I used to live in a house surrounded by trees and those things were regular vistors and would jump on you whilst you were showering.
**shudder**
Sheye.
How could I forget?
I’ve forgotten your WILDLIFE.
Once I had two of those upon my left arm, when I was gardening..(Not in my part of the world, but yours :-)
Might not be the same spiders, but the same size.
Yakk!!!!
Looked at the pictures once more.
I have to admit- this one seem bigger than the ones I was talking about.
Have a good night sleep, Sheye. Hopefully with no spidermates…
I have to show my husband these pictures! He’s afraid of spiders but I’m sure everyone would be afraid of this awful….thing! Ugghh!
Oh Sussanah, I could so run with your lifting heavy things comment… but I’m far, far, too kind to do so.
Why are spiders with HAIR so much scarier than the regular kind? Thank God for super hero father-in-laws. I can just picture him running in with cape flowing behind him: “Here I come to save the day!” Which you will be singing all day now. You’re welcome.
Oh he looks harmless. Think of it this way, he would be helping to keep every other spider, the ones you can hardly see and every insect from living in your house. I think that is a good trade off! Happy to read, he was not harmed :o)
It is the smaller spiders that scare the hell out of me… it seems we have piles of smaller ones around here – I freak out and then itch all day at work cause I feel like spiders are crawling all over me…. eeek!
I can not believe he caught it and released it. In my house with my spider phobia it would have gotten a can of spray! I couldn’t even look at those pics, the legs alone had me screaming.
Awww, come on you guys, it’s just a bubby Huntsman by the look of it! ;o)
They are creepy, but they won’t hurt you (unless you have a heart attack when you spot them on the wall watching your every move).
We used to have one (I called it Petronella) in the stairwell at an apartment block we lived in… I was sad the day I came home and she (or he) was no longer there. Sigh.
Ok you have sent shivers down my spine all the way over here in Utah. I don’t do spiders…even baby ones you can barely see. You just lived through my WORST nightmare. Except I wouldn’t have lived through it. If I did I would’ve beenstanding outside the room screaming! I wouldn’t even be able to look at it. Especially when I sent someone in to KILL it! Those “things” don’t deserve to live. Ever. Maybe not even the one in Charlotte’s Web.
I am wondering why it has only 7 legs?! It’s almost cute because it’s missing one. I think that lil spider needs to spend the rest of its days out in your garden.
Minding its spider business. I’ve had run-ins with Banana spiders when I lived in Florida. I just think they want to be cosy like the rest of us. But I never did warm up to them in my home…especially my bedroom!
Oh Jody I hadn’t noticed…it all makes sense though, he was the slowest spider I’ve ever seen. I guess he’s probably about 129 years old to have grown to that size.
My husband keep torturing me telling me that particular species travels in caravans.
OMG Sheye, are you psychically connected to my monster children??? Not even 24 hours since I read this (and didn’t show them), walk into my bedroom and there is your spider’s twin, sitting there right on my bed, yes, even on MY side of the bed! I freaked and got a shoe ;), Amy said (with a straight face) “it’s just plain wrong to murder a creature because you’re scared of it Mum”, so I get the guilts and given that my father and FIL live 100s of miles away and Andrew’s at work, scaredymum has to go get a big tupperware container and I swear I nearly had a conniption on the spot trying to catch it. As I was looking around for some cardboard to slide under it, kind Katie put me out of my misery by telling me that Sophie had put a FAKE SPIDER on my bed! The little rotters were ROFL at me and I was just sooooo glad it wasn’t real. Don’t let your boys read this comment LOL Evil children I’ve raised here….
Oh Sheye, as much as I hate to have huntsmen spiders anywhere near the house I had to laugh out loud at your sense of humour.
I am so glad that FIL was there to rescue you and the spider :-)
I’ll take the spiders…you can have the snakes.
My jaw drops! I couldn’t believe you found that in your room!
Yep, we breed ‘em big up this way! Rofl! The idea is to swat the little horrors before they get that big! Either that or, as said before, get the Flick man (or woman) in quick!
That said, take heart! At least it wasn’t a snake!!! ;)
Foul.. I know too well how much you hate spiders, and you know too well how much I hate spiders so you wont be shocked when you learn that I wont be out to visit you much… FOUL!
oooh…when I see pictures like this I’m quite happy to live in cold, dark Norway!
I once found one, about a quarter ot the size of the one in the pictures, in my bedroom..had to get my mum to remove it..it was creepy…*lol*
OMG that thing is HUGE.. I would fall over if there were a spider that big in my house..
You couldn’t squish something like that…