Photo cycling 2006 June 21 23:24
Posted by diamond in : Random, Cycling , trackbackWell, ok, the 2 words in the title aren’t actually related. I went for another cycle yesterday, did 21.4km @ 26.84kmph, which i was very pleased with. I suspect the weight-loss is responsible for most of the increases as i’m only just getting back into shape yet again. I’m now up to 847km on the kelly since i got it.
On to the photos.
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Ah, I see that my nemesis is also somebody else’s. I’m very impressed by your cool head at taking pictures of the beast. It would have sent both me and Mike running and screaming for help (as other specimens have done in the past)
Cool. However, that thing is a tiddler compared to the one that I fought the Summer before last. You see, I was on my way up stairs when I saw, through the corner of my eye, a suspicious dark shadow on the hallway wall, near the ceiling. On closer inspection i ascertained that it was a regular giant house spider, the kind you find in the bath. So, I got a large bowl and scooped him in, through him out. Job done - or so I thought.
Later that night, I was woken up by footsteps. Yes that’s right FOOTSTEPS (or pawsteps, I’m not quite sure) coming from a corner of the room. Wondering what it was (thinking it was a mouse) I got up, turned on the light, had a look around and there sitting on a Dunnes bag, looking up at me was the biggest bleedin’ spider I have ever bleedin seen. How big was he? Bleedin’ big enough for me to hear every bleedin footstep. Body length - about an inch with at least a three inch legspan.
Not sure it was the giant house spider (tegenaria gigantea). Too big and the body shape was unusual, more elongated, less oval. Not a bit like the one I despatched downstairs earlier. But hey, what do I know. Later that Summer people were calling in the Mooney goes Wild show reporting unusually large spiders turning up in their houses.
Did I mention that it was bleedin huge?
Creepy eh.
He does sound ferocious - but was he as big as this guy (who I actually rescued
?
I remember hearing a spider walking on plastic once too, and he was big - but probably not as big as one I saw in Castletroy once, driving
from Plassey Park road towards the Dublin Road - my monster was standing in the middle of the road, waiting for me to pass before he (she?) finished crossing. Now that was a big spider.
Ah! Edward, that’s an African spider…I don’t even want to THINK about those!
I have to say that the road-crossing spider sounds humongous…Was it at least wearing a high-visibility vest???
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