The Golden Orb

Well now, something a little more interesting than grocery shopping!  There was I, minding my own business, taking a break from studying, enjoying a nice light hearted episode of Mr Bean and slowly eating my last CCE, when I heard a shout from the the kitchen.  Come and geeeeet it!  Roast leg of insurance salesman bathroom. (sorry, I got carried away!) "Come and look at this!!!"  Dubious, as always, expecting to be told that I had left something lying around (not an uncommon occurrence), I headed towards the bathroom, still clasping the remains of my precious CCE.

Outside the window, hanging on a faintly yellow web, this is what I saw:

these pictures are stolen off Google as I couldn't wouldn't get close enough to it for my iphone to work out too well.

Well, to be brutally honest... I don't actually want to form any kind of a relationship with this spider.  Especially as Wikipedia also tells me that it eats small birds and such like! 

Wikipedia tells me:

Interaction with humans

These spiders do not seem to form either beneficial or harmful relationships with humans.

Well, to be brutally honest... I don't actually want to form any kind of a relationship with this spider.  Especially as Wikipedia also tells me that it eats small birds and such like! 


The particular specimen outside the bathroom window probably measures.... actually scratch that.  Myself and RM went and measured it properly.  Our technique consisted on putting a standard sized clothes peg (like those wooden ones) on the end of a long stick and approaching the spider from one side (avoiding its web).  Using this technique, the body measured approximately 2 centimetres, and its legs (all curved obviously) well overlapped the edges of the peg, maybe 1cm either side.


How I love the fact that the windows in my bedroom have netting on them!  Otherwise my room would NEVER be ventilated!  ...and I just felt an itchy sensation on my neck and almost had a panic attack.


SCARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!