I really should of looked up...

The other night I did have a little spring clean around the place - well just the areas that the technician was going to see or so I thought.  I pulled out furniture and sucked those dust bunnies up the vacuum cleaner hose.  I dusted and tidied and had most of it done with the expectation that he'd be late the next day and I could finish off....

We said "Come anytime after 1.15, because Judith will be home from work by then" and he did...exactly 1.16 with the breakfast dishes still laying all around the place, the last of the shopping still waiting to put away, 2 clothes horses of wet washing etc etc.  All that last minute stuff that I was going to do because he would be late.  Wouldn't be so bad if we didn't know him...his wife worked with Richard up until a couple of weeks ago.

All was cool..."yes he understood completely...yes I've got 3 children so know what a messy house is like...yes that's fine you keep tidying and I won't be in your way"...and then he went into the ceiling through the manhole - no probs there either until he came down and said...

"You've got a large infestation of redback spiders up there."

And then we both looked up at the manhole and ceiling...

Oh how I wished I looked up and got those spider webs before he came and then I could of looked all surprised and said...

"Spiders...redback spiders...well I never would of guessed that."

As I don't fancy the thought of getting up there and killing each one individually...off to the shops on the weekend to get some spider bombs.