Spiders

I HATE spiders – would never kill one,that’s just asking for bad luck. It doesn’t matter what size they are – small, medium, large or gigantic – I hate them.So while pottering in the garden yesterday I went into the shed to look for something and was ambushed by THE most ENORMOUS  Irish “tarantula” ever seen!! Steve tells me it was probably just the ordinary  female garden variety. He wasn’t held hostage by the damn thing! It looked at me and I looked at it. Now I   do have a humane spider catcher, but it was  in the house – not a lot of help. Eventually I decided I couldn’t stay there till Steve came home, so taking my courage in my (thankfully)gloved hands, I tried to coax it on to a spade -difficult to do when you have your eyes screwed up to avoid looking at it. Was I successful? No. It scuttled away and it is WAITING for me.