Preparing for Module 2 - Spider update

Hi All,

Just me again! Well thought it was time to post again and do my duty as a guest blogger! Lets start with the first installment of the 'Spider' story. As Sue was alluding to in her post a couple of weeks back.. I am not really a spider person, to say the least. Well it so happens we do have a spider called a 'huntsman' Big hairy ugly spiders that can grow as big as a persons hand.. Not that I have ever measured one. But they can flatten themselves out and crawl through the narrowest of gaps! so they get into the most unusual places. Now they are not actually deadly but will give you a nasty bite if you really provoke them 'Why you would get that near in the first place escapes me' Anyway.. I was driving to work one day when one of these creatures pop out from under my dashboard, positions itself on my windscreen right in front of me! Yuck! 'Now I believe contrary to reality is they are called 'hunstman' for a reason.. It just looked at me and I could hear it say its me or you kid, this car is not big enough for both of us' It was right.. so i proceeded to jump out of the car. Only thing is the car was still moving! (wait till next time for further on the spider story)

Well I am in recovery after our first Black Belt module in Aus. This week marks module 2. We have a first 9 participants.. check out the pic on the virgin group in Aus, taken last week.

Comments

[Sue]

Love the idea of getting the spider story in installments!

Have to tell everyone that Adrian originally sent me the whole story on email, after Melissa hinted that I should ask him about what happened with a huntsman spider and his car. (Good to see the tradition of female half of Black Belt giving away embarrassing secrets of male half of Black Belt is continuing in Aus.) I couldn't stop laughing for a good 10 minutes after I read the mail. In fact I kept it, and now and again I open it again just to have a good giggle to myself (sorry Adrian!)

I see the Aus Black Belt is also following the tradition of having the guys well and truly out-numbered by the gals...

[Alex Manchester]

Adrian you have now completely freaked me out about these things! I was lying in bed last night thinking of all the small and narrow places one could crawl in, especially the window right above the bed - we had a nasty encounter back in February where a Huntsman just crawled out from under the pillow....

[Sue]

Hmm. Suddenly the UK with all its winter darkness and cold doesn't seem bad at all ...

[Alex Manchester]

The successive plagues of giant moths and flies, quickly followed by cockroaches and Golden Orb spiders (big but harmless) appearing as the weather warms, not to mention the spectre of the Huntsman and the majority of the world's other top 10 dangerous snakes, spiders (and sharks, too)...

In comparison, the UK does have it easy when it comes to nasty creatures!

[Liam]

Biblical plagues?

Do you think God is trying to tell the Aussies something?

Liam

[Alex Manchester]

Liam, possibly only that their damn cricket team is too good. ;-)