Here is Becky’s first spider update. Spiders make you go urghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh and do a shiver. This update is about the GOLIATH BIRDEATER. It is the biggest spider the world and is a type of tarantula. This picture is life size – they are very big.
They can grow to up to 12 inches across. Urghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. There are no recorded incidents of a tarantula bite killing a human but other animals like dogs, cats and cows are much more susceptible.
It is quite common in the places they are for these types of animal to be killed by these types of spider. They also like to eat mice and are the only spiders big enough to do this.
Goliath Birdeaters do not eat birds so that was bit of mistake to call them that. They do eat bats and frogs though and also crickets
Spiders are high in protein! The Piaroha tribe in Venezuela collect Goliath Birdeater tarantulas and roast them over hot coals, eating them as if they were big hairy crabs … carefully avoiding the large fangs and the poison sacs. The fangs are later used as toothpicks.
These spiders are described as highly aggressive and should not be handled. Their legs are very hairy and each hair has got a toxin in it which gives you a rash if it touches your skin. I very much don’t want to ever find one I my bed and if I did have a good plan for how to make sure it doesn’t get me.
Keane had the best selling album of 2004. Rudi’s mum, Max, helped Keane record this album. I made a website for Rudi’s Mum’s production company (
On Sunday me and Ben were playing pool in my parents’ dining room. Pool is not so safe a game as we had imagined so I think we were not prepared for what followed. I was just lining up for a shot, on the black as it happened when suddenly there was a small earthquake detectable only by myself which caused me to ram the pool cue into my thumb nail. Ben thought this was hilarious but it was actually quite serious and I thought for some time that my nail would subsequently go black and fall off.
Ijust got back from Christmas. I have 5 days of holiday left so I think it’s time to get off to the woods. Maybe there will be a realy update tonight, but I have lots of presents to play with so I doubt it.
Tom is selling off the old noid tees to make room for our new stock. At a guess I would say the design on the left is noid – means to an end. This is the sizes he has left:
noid simple pleasures. one left in medium (£4 due to discolour), 2 left in large, and one left in xl.
Christmas seems to be going on a long time this year. There’s talk of a white Christmas. Look at the weather forcast bozos. It’s sunny! Last week at work we had a Christmas meal so we went home early, plus they were handing out mince pies and mulled wine. Today there are people singing carols while I am at work which means free food (and wine) at lunchtime and no work getting done. At the moment some kids are doing a play which sounds bad to be honest but it’s better than work. Tomorrow we have a buffet lunch then its off to the pub, and then no work for 11 days. Maybe Christmas isn’t so bad.
