“The scraggly spiders of her words crept around my brain” ― Ryszard Kapuściński

My father often recited poetry at random moments in conversation. It's part of that old English school boy education they had back in the 1950s. A lot of Kipling. But also this one - a line out of a poem from 1829, 'Come into my parlour said the Spider to the Fly' by Mary Howitt. To this day it's the first thing that pops into my head when I see a spider. Then the Australian in me says "Is it a Funnel web?" (because they are really the only spiders Australians are scared of). I know that title quote is meant negatively but Dad's poetry is rattling around in my head, and when it pops out at unexpected times, is now quite a sweet tie to him, and to my childhood. They're not deep and meaningful moments, just a part of him that is imprinted in my subconscious, a mundane daily interaction. Life is not just the big moments, but all moments. And those casual exchanges shared are easier to celebrate in a lot of ways, and later, memorilise. 

I do know that in this country, if a spider makes it's web inbetween trees, it's not venemous. (Tho people that know about such things, correct me if I'm wrong). It's the ground ones that are dangerous or deadly.

I personally think most spiders are our friends, and they stop us getting malaria....(I know that's an extreme jump but it is sort of true, maybe stop us getting Ross River Fever or just itchy, eating the mosquitos). Australians generally aren't that scared of spiders, or even snakes but the most universally terrifying creature is the magpie in Spring. Every single one of us has a trauma story when we were attacked by a magpie and we couldn't make it stop. (I'm not being funny. It's awful!)

Anyway, this one was so cute, I had to try to get photos. My phone couldn't zoom in enough but still cute!

And the yellow thing in the pics is an inchworm but I didn't realise until after I'd taken all the pictures.

And while looking up a quote for the title, I stumbled across this and it is your thought for the day to ponder "“In a World Wide Web, who are the spiders and who are the flies?” ― Blake Janssen

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