Spiders.

This is the second post I have put on today. To most Australians these are familiar spiders. My reason for writing about the spiders is because a lot of people that do not live in Australia have a morbid fear of the insects and snakes that we have here. My cousin rang me on sunday night from England and one of his comments was had I seen an snakes on my sons land ( They have just had a house built on acreage). We have lived in Australia now for 35 years and I will have to say I have never seen a snake around our house or anywhere close since we have been here. The closest to anything poisonous I have seen is redback spiders, these are poisonous. I uncovered one only last week in our garage a rather big female I must admit I did dispose of her but like most things if I had ignored her she would have run away from me. Perhaps the most daunting of Australian spiders is the Huntsman this is mildly toxic but it is a big spider and has the speed of a greyhound.When ever they get into our house, we usually find them on the bedroom ceiling just as we lay down to go to sleep. I say this has the speed of a greyhound but not as fast as my wife when she realises there is a spider in the room. The spiders have never seem to worry me but then perhaps up until now I have probably been a bit over confident.

On the move again.

We are on the move again we put the house on the market last thursday after being in here just 16 months. The inside of the house is entirely different now to when we moved in.We are now looking to go into an over 50s complex not a retirement village. Some of the houses we have looked at have more space inside than our house at the moment and this one is not small, the owners of one house we saw had named their house THE TARDIS. There is just one thing now and that is the simple thing of selling it.

Please read the insructions.

Last night 11/8/2008 I noticed our dog had developed a swollen face being a Sheltie her nose is normally rather small and pointed this had swollen, so we went through the motions of trying to get a Vet, one that is open after normal hours. We found one that gave us some information over the phone he reckoned she had probably had an allergic reaction to an insect bite and to go to a chemist and get some antihistamine the product was called Phenagan this is for children, so at 10.30 pm I drove 25 kilometres to get some from a chemist that stayed open until 11. o clock. As I said this product is for children so read carefully the instructions on the side of the box.