Went down to pick up the keys to the house. We were very excited to finally be taking possession of our little bush house. On our way we stopped in Ikea to get some ideas and didn't emerge until 4 hours later. There should be a health warning on those places...

We were greeted by a local - a huge Huntsman spider (yes its a beast) just sitting on the kitchen wall. Jay didnt know how i'd react to this beastie and tried to stop me from seeing him... but you know me, i'll poke just about anything with a long enough stick...

Jay captured him and put his cage outside to deal with later. We put a couple more spiders out into the garden and had a cuppa tea... only we had no cups - only the tiny expresso set we had shoved in the car at the last moment. Anyway we sat on our deck, after unearthing a couple of rusted chairs from the garden (one of which turned out to be an ants nest) for a while fantasising about all the things we were going to do to the place. Then when the mosquitos got too much, we retreated inside.

Having no bed, we spent an uncomfortable night on the floor wrapped up in sleeping bags, dreaming of spiders...