| Morning shock!!
Well its Friday and I thought that I would try and get ahead before the weekend, so that I can get on and do things I want to do this weekend rather than gardening, clearing up, etc.
I loaded the car and trailer up yesterday evening for an early trip to the tip this morning, so that I would not have to suffer the long queues over the weekend.
So off I went at 08.00 ready for when it opens and great no queue able to pull straight up. Unloaded the back of the car and made a start on the trailer with the garden waste in it, when a small pick up pulls in beside me.
The guy was unlading some plaster board off cuts, which made a bit of dust, but what I was not prepared for was the bag of dry unused plaster that he lobbed in afterwards. There was an enourmous cloud of pink dust as it split in the skip, next thing I knew I was enveloped in it! Once it died down, it appeared that I had changed colour, I was pink from head to toe!
Needless to say the guy had legged it! Shook myself off to get the worst of it off, but I was still a real mess. Nothing to do but put a dust sheet over the driving seat and come home.
Clothes straight in the sink, rinsed through and into the washing machine, time to do something about me.
Rinsed my hair off in the shower and decided to jump in the bath. Having finished did the usual trick of pulling the plug out with my foot and allow the water to partially drain away before I got out.
Then it started, there was something moving down towards the tap end under the water, black thin sticks about 5mm long started poking out of the water! I must have been slightly soporific, because it didn't sink in for a while, but a further look and I was out of the bath in a shot, the heart was racing, I could feel the adrenaline flowing through my viens!
The biggest spider I have seen in ages, about the size of my palm, had obviously floated up from under the plug and was swiming around in the bath water.
It had really given me a shock. But I did have a really good laugh at my own reaction!
Usual jam jar trick and it is now living in the bush behind the back door out of harms reach!  |