The one in my bathroom definitely scuttled down the plug hole when I tried to rescue it.
The next morning it was back (or its close relative).
And I wish Apple would stop rewriting what I have written on the iPad.
I had a big one and it's baby or younger sibling at my front door yesterday.
(ach, you know what I mean!) They weren't there when I went out shortly after spotting them. Maybe they've trundled off to Anne's ?
The scuttling long-leggity ones are the boys and the ones with fatter bodies and slightly shorter legs are the girls and they don't scuttle about quite so much. Boy spiders scuttle around in that scary way because they are desperate to find a girl spider. (I really like the word 'scuttle'.)
They seem to be trying to make some sort of coccoon out of my washing line and garden furniture at the moment. I feel like I'm indian Jones fighting my way through a jungle just to have a cuppa in the garden. One fell in my mug that other day. uugghhh.
We have a MASSIVE spider living behind the cistern in the bathroom. Really handy as #1 is potty training at the moment and she'll happily sit on her potty chatting away to this poor spider.
Scared to leave her in there with it in case it tries to eat her though.
Just to put the record straight, Lottie, I'm not some kind of spider voyeur, I just found out when a humungous spider appeared in my car and then I couldn't find it. I wanted to know if it was likely to have babies. <shudders>