"shazzbat" wrote in message
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"Spider" wrote in message
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Hello everyone,

Spider here. It's a long time since I posted here - and I see some new
posters - so I thought I would introduce myself.

I'm a particulary hairy female spider living in SE London and gardening
on London clay .. somewhat improved clay .. but still solid and sticky in
places. I am mainly a 'decorative' gardener, but am growing tomatoes and
plums, and hope to plant apple trees in the near future. The Husband
Thingy, Richard, is growing potatoes (2 first early, 1 second early), and
hopes to grow runner beans next year.

We live on a corner plot, so have a wrap-round garden looking South right
round to North-West.

I have two 4 year old cats who are well behaved and cause little or no
damage in the garden. They are trained to be garden friendly. Alas, I
can't seem to train them to eat slugs, but they are otherwise fairly
biddable.

Spider


Welcome back, O arachnoid one. I have here a memento of you and your
family, no?

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t...0stuff/jke.jpg

Steve

Thank you, Steve. How ever did you get a picture of my Aunty Tara? Sadly,
Uncle Antula scuttled off and left her holding the spiderlings.

More seriously, I kept tarantulas for 22 years - 16 spiders at one point -
and this looks like a tree-dwelling type. Very, very quick on its feet.
Thanks for the pic. :~)

For anyone who's interested, I was a neurotic screaming arachnophobe for 20
years, but then had treatment at the Maudsley Hospital in London. Total
cure. Now I love spiders, but this new-found love and confidence meant I
could spend time in the garden. The garden took over until I felt it
necessary to run down my spider collection and revert to an arachnid-free
life, *and* I got my living room back! Just so you know I have a (strange)
sense of humour, I called one of my tarantulas 'Venus', as in 'Fly Trap'.
Anyway, that's a lengthy way of explaining how I came to be called Spider.

Spider