by nowonmai » Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:06 am
Great pics, like the glimpse of life over the water. I kept a spider in a bucket in my room in a jungly place, as a kind of trophy I guess, like having a pet shark in your pool. Fed it cockroaches, gave it scorpion fights that kind of thing. It lived there for about a month, with the odd run around and bit of sunlight. It was a tarantula and big at that and I couldn't bring my self to handle it routinely. Anyway, I used to drape my towel over my chair to dry it and one night as I'm dutifully writing up some crap or other at my desk with only the sound of the overhead fan and the jungle outside to keep me company (alright, a right old racket but the point is that was I was undisturbed and concentrating) I detect this filiament of a touch on my shoulder where it meets the towel draped over the chair. After a few seconds I idly glance over my shoulder behind me to see this beast from hell looking at me from 6 inches away trying to gain purchase on my shoulder. 6 feet in the air and brown trousers later I decided that now my mate had worked out how to get out of the bucket it was time for him to go back to where he came. I'd largely forgotten that until I saw that pic.