I'm sitting at the computer table (which happens to be under a staircase) and it's 5am.. it's monday morning and I glance over and see this massive (well massive by your average UK spider standards) spider crawling up the stair case.

I recover from the initial shock and pick myself up off the floor... Go get a bowl and tray and manage to cajole it into the bowl (it makes a thud as it enters.. well I might be exagerating here but you get the idea) - and place the tray over the top.

I then move out and one handed unlock the back door throw it (literally) onto the ground via the bowl - which typicaly lands face down so it's trapped. I've thrown it because I didn't want to run the risk of placing it down and it jumping up my arm or something... Anyway I flip the bowl over and it's not there so must have fell out when I threw the bowl in the first place.



So I sit back at the comptuer and think to myself I'm a big guy what the hell is with this irrational fear of spiders. What is it instincitively in some of us that creates this illogical phobia! Anyone else like this with these things?I don't mind the piddly ones but this one was half the size of my hand!!!