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Friday, September 28, 2007

Spider

In case you're wondering why you've been subjected to this, the relevant formula is: "shaky footling about with new camcorder" + "new version of iMovie" + "questionable music taste" + "bored Friday evening on my own".

Alli' Cat' I had one of them, same variety, build a web in my back garden a couple of days ago. Trouble was, it suspended it by throwing a line between a fence post and the wheelie-bin (somehow???) - two objects that are about seven feet apart! That seems like a hell of a distance for a spider that's about the size of my thumb. But what's bugging (ho, ho) me is how it did it. The idea of it attaching one end, climbing down and walking along the ground, dragging the line behind it, then climbing up and hauling in all that slack just seems wrong somehow.
I tried to photograph it, but the wind was blowing it about too much for me to get it in focus :-)

Emma G The answer is a natural ability for bungee jumping, only sideways. The same wind that made your shot impossible made the connection possible.

Pandora Caitiff Spiders freak me the hell out, but also fascinate me. I've been photographing the ones in my house.

What's the tune?

Becky It's called "Spider", Pandora. ;-)

Jayne How beautiful, that looks like an Orb web spider and they can grow up to in an inch in size.

I used to have a pet Tarantula which was a beautiful animal. She only bit me once, but my God she had huge fangs over an inch long. Fortunately, she hardly got me, but it did itch for days.

Found a big old house spider recently that was so big, we could see the fangs with out using a magnifying glass. Now she was a beast and very beautiful too. I love spiders...

By the way, nice shooting Bex, you are fab.

Dan There is nothing questionable about that music. Although possibly one of the less accessible to their tracks (is that grammatically correct?)

Pandora Caitiff Oh! TMBG! Thats excellent muscial taste :D

Becky Thanks Pandora, I thought so. :-)

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