A (live) spider

Well we had quite an exciting day last Friday as we had some very good news on several fronts.

It's so nice to have the 30% tax rebate ruling. Finally we can plan some travel. As a celebration we went to a big camping/outdoor store, which is Adam's favourite sort of shop. And we didn't buy anything, but picked up a few catalogues, which make for great loo reading for Adam.

Another exciting thing that happened on Friday involves Edward. I was cleaning up our perpetually messy kitchen, while Edward was playing near the back-door (which is always shut). Then I realised that Edward was suspiciously quiet. This only happens when he is immersed in doing something very interesting, (usually quite naughty or dangerous).
So I dashed over to the door. Edward was absolutely fascinated by something that he had found on the floor. Then he turned to me with a great big smile and reached out to hand me his "treasure". I was not wearing my glasses, so said "thank you Darling" and put my hand out.

He placed a (small) but very, very alive Spider in my hand.

I managed not to scream, shook the Spider off my hand and ran with Edward to the far end of the sittingroom. Then I dashed back (luckily I had not put the vacuum away) and vacuumed that Spider up. Edward of course crawled as fast as he could back to the back door to find his treasure.

Hmmm. His first pet?

Ah dear, that is a day I will never forget.