Especially if your son is David Tennant...

<gnashes teeth>

Curses on you, David Tennant!

1st - Never leave cold scrambled eggs in a non-ptfe pan. We suspect this is what the Romans used for all the buildings that are still standing.

2nd - Don't burn black powder on a teaspoon in your kitchen sink, the stain never comes off the teaspoon.

3rd - wikipedia has this to say of the huntsman spider:

Huntsman spider is a common name given to the family Sparassidae (formerly Heteropodidae). They are also known as the giant crab spiders, due to their appearance; larger specimens of these spiders are also sometimes referred to as wood spiders, due to their preference for inhabiting woody places (forest, mine shafts, woodpiles).

These eight-eyed spiders are found in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Southeast Asia, the Mediterranean, Florida, and Hawaii, and possibly in many other tropical and semi-tropical regions. They can be found as far north as England, Sweden and Wales.

look it up if you're interested in the rest :-)

Don't worry, I know them well. I usually have to rescue screaming children from the poor spiders. Oops, make that rescue the poor spiders from the dangerous children!

I like them, providing they are visible and stay in the ceiling corner and of course in a non-bedroom part of the house.

fun fact about huntsmans no. 23: Being bitten by a huntsman feels remarkably like being stabbed with a fork. And they hang on by their fangs, the buggers.

They have eight eyes....
They can be found as far North as England......

Why is the rest of England taking this so calmly?

Have been to buy emergency supplies of water and flour and have tuned to local radio to await more instructions, will begin panic rioting any minute now.

Really? I must note that down, never to be bitten by one. I have no intention of feeling like I have been forked.

(snigger)

What?

Nothing...

ah, the only problem BibwitHart comes when you don't realise!