Bug off?
Yesterday, as I was driving home from a shopping trip, I was stopped at traffic lights and noticed a five legged spider on the car next to me. Obviously it looked a little worse for wear, having only five legs, but it was clinging onto the side of the car just by the back window. While the car was stopped it seemed to spinning some web to anchor itself more firmly before it hunkered down and stopped moving. The lights turned green and the car sped ahead of me. I was watching the spider to see if it blew off but it didn't. The car was halted by more traffic in its lane ahead but my lane was free and I was able to catch it up and pass it.....the spider was still clinging on.'Its having a worse day than me,' I thought.Today I nipped to the bank and pulled out of the drive and was just moving off slowly when I noticed a big praying mantis sat on the windscreen wiper. I pulled over but wasn't game to pick it up and it certainly was not worried about me looming over it as it kept on walking towards me across the windscreen.I got Dulcie's disabled parking permit and collected it on that and carried it to some shrubbery in a neighbours garden and do you know.....it never said 'thank you!'
Not the sharpest pictures from my phone camera.