Guess what I found in my living room?

Their preferred habitat is under dry bark and plants but will often be seen inside houses, where they look for shelter from the light, after hunting at night. The spider often hides in clothing, especially if it is left lying around on the floor.

Yes - a white tailed spider! We saw it scuttling across the carpet last night, finally taking refuge in our computer cd holder......

I tipped it out unceremoniously into a plastic tub (with tight fitting lid) and then proceeded to examine it with my torch. Beautiful looking spider with a definate white tip on its tail.

We went to chuck it out into the garden when, lo and behold, there was another one crawling up the back door! They're quite big too!

Son has now decided to pick up all his clothes off the bedroom floor!

Here you go - this is what one looks like:

Well - the weather has been fabbie over the past few days - cold in the mornings and evenings, but absolutely beautiful during the day.

Kev and Adam went out tonight to the North Shore to collect a fridge freezer bought via Trade Me - yayyy! We now have a freezer! Will be returning borrowed fridge asap with many grateful thanks for the past few months and also thanks to R tonight for the loan of his labour and much needed vehicular space. Cheers everyone.

Well - it's Friday tomorrow - aerobics day and News and Views too.

I really enjoy the aerobics with the kids - such fun - expecially the Picking Coconuts from the Coconut Tree song! It's really cool to see most of the school doing aerobics together.

I've decided News and Views will be all about unsual foods. I've found some cool photos on the children's Newsround site. Will get the children to have a fun quiz first guessing what the foods could possibly be and then we'll spend a happy hour or so plotting where they come from onto a world map. Fridays are fun! Will be sewing in the afternoon - are currently making mats, weaving, making pom poms and God's Eyes.

Hurray for Fridays!

Tata fer noo.

x Sue