Showing posts with label red back spider. Show all posts
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Thursday, 31 March 2011








Today, whilst looking for an extension chord with which to power up my mother’s oxygen machine, I came across a real life version of many non-Antipodeans’ largest fear - A red back spider in the home it had made for itself at the head end of my mother’s bed.


Really, against my moral code, I drenched it with fly killer until it spun like a break dancer and then, I think, eventually drowned.