Contrast...

... to yesterday's image. Some may find this (not so) little chap repellent, especially on finding him in the bath when about to step into it. He was about 3" in diameter and even the dogs wouldn't touch him. Any big strong men out there willing to do the necessary? Evict the spider I mean...

Some spider quotes:

"The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes"

~Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

"The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."

~Pablo Picasso

"I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming with a goal in front and not behind"

~George Bernard Shaw