more spider stuff

We've had a huntsman spider in our house for a while now. Mostly it sits high up on the wall, trying to blend in invisibly. Which is difficult, seeing as it's dark and the wall is white. So we know it's there, but we're not that fazed by it. In the last couple of weeks it's moved around the house a fair bit, down the hall, in one bedroom, in the lounge room and now into our bedroom.

This is where Dean started getting edgy. Dean is far more arachnophobic than I am - unless it's something obviously poisonous I'll tend to leave spiders alone. So he asked me to get the spider out of the bedroom. I got a broom to try and convince it to move - and realised that even with a broom, the ceilings were too high for me to reach it. So I left it alone, and we went to sleep.

When we woke up, it had moved back into the hall corridor.

The following night, it turned up on the inside of the curtains in the bedroom. I debated moving it, then decided I couldn't be bothered.

In the morning, it had vanished again.

It spent the next two or so nights in a corner of the corridor. Then turned up on the wall next to my side of the bed.

"Oh good" said Dean "I've got a human shield."

I ignored him and went to sleep. Apart from waking us both up in the middle of the night when I dreamt the spider was on me and turned the light on to check (I wasn't fully awake, really) we both slept OK. And in the morning, the spider had vanished again.

Until this morning. This morning I woke up, got up, got dressed, and then noticed that it was now sitting on the bed-head right above my head. Hm.

If it's still there tonight I may have to move it. I'll give good odds though it'll have vanished again.

On the other hand there's a millipede in the bathroom again... God I hate millipedes.