My dad hated funnelwebs and passed on that hate/fear to me. I'm a little less discriminating, though, so any big, black or dark brown spider of a certain shape gets the shoe or spray treatment- be it funnelweb, house spider, mouse spider or whatever. (I know funnelwebs also come in brown and grey, but they get the benefit of the doubt.)
The only spiders I remember seeing in the UK were daddy long legs and a couple in the gardens we went to- which 'Chelle spotted, of course, and wanted dead. Do youse get proper spiders in the UK?
