more (harmless) spiders

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i know you like looking at spiders, so here’s our latest spots.  all harmless, so don’t worry.  this first one is a grey house spider. 

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they like making spiders around car wing mirrors.  they are good at it and build really quickly.  the spider’s in the middle somewhere

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and here’s a daddy long legs.  just like the ones back in the uk, but perhaps a little longer in the leg

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esther caught this one in her pot and was going to leave it outside until we looked it up on the spider identification website and found it lives in the house.  at that point esther decided it should live in a cupboard rather than outside.  we compromised and left it in the garage

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and here’s another good new zealand news story.  last time we had a dog stuck in a tea pot. this time a toddler stuck in a teddy-picker at Auckland’s airport.  full story (and perhaps some video) here

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and in life news, the girls had school, jane helped out with kezia’s class and i had a good day at work.