I sleep a solid 4 hours nearly every day - usually between 3am and 7am.

Wow Roopy, how did you do that? It's like you knew we were talking about you

The australian message boards are deserted at 1am - this is the place to be.

I'm slightly disappointed, I thought you were some kind of Beetlejuice or something, oh well.

Have [iyou[/i ever been bitten by a spider? I have, I'm not dead though, just red & itchy.

At royal mail collecting an undelivered parcel, seems no parcels were delivers this week. Bingo queue has nothing on this.

I live in the bush in Australia - I have to check my shoes for spiders before i put them on in the morning (yes, i've been bitten - i've had tarantulas land on my forehead when i'm in bed at night.)

I bet thats fun. Tarantulas don't bite though, do they? They fire s things out of their bums, hurts if you get one in your eye. Or am I thinking of something else? On second thoughts they probably do bite, maybe thats what got me?

You would know if you had been here,its a time warp.
As for Dave,thats like the Yanks asking "You are British?,have you met the Queen?"

What is it? Is it something exciting?
If I'd have know I would have asked my brother to collect it for you, he's a postman.

They bite, but only if you play with them, and they aren't that poisonous. I let them stay in the house because they eat other spiders and they are so big you can't miss them. They keep the little, dangerous spiders away.
We have funnell web spiders here - they are the most poisonous spiders in the world - but they very rarely come inside.

I would need even more psychiatric help than usual if a tarantula landed on my fizzog.



What are you getting? Why can't your bread knife just answer the door?

Australia.

It's that hot you burn to ash in seconds, if you do go out the worlds most poisonous creatures lie in wait at every turn to kill you, some even specifically hide under the toilet seat waiting for you to have a tom tit. Then to cool off you go for a swim, at which point if you're in the sea a shark bites you in two or if it's a river a crocodile grabs you and lodges you under a rock at the bottom until you rot enough for it to eat you.

Why does anyone want to go?

It's tick season now.
A mate of mine had a big shellback tick this morning.

The redback spider is Australia's gift to the world.
Apparently they are showing up all over the world.
They are the ones that live under just about everything laying on the ground, and hide under toilet seats.
Big problem in Japan and NZ apparently.

The poor sod would have no chance if I had been on the curry.