Day 304 - October 31

For today I chose a photo to suit the occasion. But it also has a special story - it was taken at the beginning of the year! Every winter we seem to have two of these big black house spiders living in our bath room, one behind the radiator and the other behind the sink stem. (BTW, they have just appeared again - so I COULD have taken a new photo...call me lazy.) And every year for 2 or 3 times, my German friend Nicole used to come over to work bank shifts at the local hospital (she's a midwive) which is just down the road, so she stayed with us. Nicole is totally arachnophobic so when she first saw one of those spiders, she didn't want to go into the bathroom anymore! Then DH in his ingenuity made up a story about them being our pets, and that they had names - I then quickly called them Amalia and Charlotta, two very old-fashioned German names. Strangely enough, after that, Nicole was okay with the bathroom, as long as I went in first to make sure neither of the two was in evidence at the moment... And ever since, the annul spiders in the bathroom are Amalia (behind the radiator) and Charlotta (behind the sink). So - meet Amalia!!!