Hi.

I really had intended writing on here far more often.  Sorry.  I will try to post things on here a little more often, especially as it would appear that people actually read what im writing! J

Well, since the last time I wrote something I have been pretty busy (hidden excuse).  I was actually kind of waiting for after the weekend so I could send a huge list of things I have been doing.  Last night however something happened which I have to tell you.  It was much more dramatic than any of the exciting occurrences happening in the week before.  There was a very large spider on the wall of the room where my washing machine was.  As I was taking my washing out of the machine I looked up and there he was staring back at me.  I stepped back and literally shouted at him that he was a dirty little b&$”&^d.  I don’t think he heard me though as he sat there on that wall quite motionless, and appearing rather nonchalant.  For those of you who don’t know, I am absolutely horrified of spiders.  Not just a bit squeamish, but really really terrified.  Anyways, I stashed my washing in my room and knocked on Greg’s door.  He is aware of my fear of spiders, and so was wonderful in grabbing his can of bug killing stuff and running off to the wash room to vanquish the beast.  I was comforted by Meixia while the battle ensued.  After a few minutes he returned to tell me that he had won, and that the spider was pretty much dead.  He went back and finished the job.

This morning, after a rather fitful sleep, I was woken from my slumber by a rat-tat-tatting at my door.  I quickly dressed and made sure my hair was okay before answering.  Greg was outside and told me that he had the spider in his room, still dead of course, and that he was intending to show it to Tracy so that something could be done.  Greg has had a fair few problems with bugs in his apartment.  I have been relatively lucky so far.  He said he was going to unravel he spider’s legs (as they had coiled when the spider had died) and stick the spider to something so that he could truly demonstrate the size.  I mulled the idea over quickly, and told Greg that I wanted to see it.  I decided that I really needed to see that it was actually dead, and that it probably looked worse in my imagination than in real life.  So it was about half an hour later that I took the photos that can be seen above.  As I was finishing with the spider a large butterfly started flapping about us and I thought I would take some photos.  I hoped that the butterfly’s beauty would help compensate for the vulgarity of the spider, and my taking photos of it.

Ok, well I think that that is about enough for this entry.  I have so much more to say, and on such a happier note, but I felt that I needed to get the spider story out there.  Hopefully if I have time I will get chance to fill you all in tomorrow on the rest of the stuff, before it becomes dated and irrelevant.

Well, goodbye then.  And keep the comments coming,.  It makes me smile when I see someone has responded.  And we all know that people are prettier when they smile.

Byebye for now.

Mat

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