Arschnophobes beware!!!!!

I would like to put something near it, so you can see the size, but the bathroom is out of use now, until I formulate a plan.

It has eyes on stalks, or some big bobbles on them.

Oh and I wrote arsephobes.
I'm going to have to spend the rest of the night going obsessively into the bathroom to make sure it hasn't got out of the bath.

Except I'm now too afraid to go in the bathroom at all.

Still trying to pluck up some courage....
I am on new water tablets and I need a wee!!!

Insect spray will fix it!

It looks like one of ours. Perhaps someone ‘imported’ it from Oz ?

It's almost as big as the palm of my hand!

‘Morning MissA ?
It’s very unlikely that it will be able to get out of the bath.
It’s either fallen in, or went in for a drink.
I really like spiders, it’s a shame I’m not there, I’d sort him out. (We could eat some toast together too )
Please don’t kill him.

Get some toilet roll in a loosely folded, lightly scoop him up, and chuck the whole lot out of the window.
Can you do that?

What can I do, though?
Seriously, I don't know how to deal with it, because there is no way I can go near it.

He won’t go onto you .
They are really timid, and don’t randomly move about iykwim (unlike daddy long legs)

I can't do that, fanny.
I am petrified: it made me gag to even read "scoop him up".

Are they eyes on the ends of the stalks??

Oh no
I do understand. I used to be terrified of daddy long legs, not now though

No, they are part of its antenna

Be careful, though. If by any remote chance it is an ‘overseas’ spider it could be poisonous. Many of ours are, you wouldn’t touch them with a ten foot pole.

What does it need ruddy antenna for?
Antenna, knee joints and elbows.
Who does he think he is with all these fancy parts?

MissAdventure

Still trying to pluck up some courage....
I am on new water tablets and I need a wee!!!

... look, just give it the house keys. And the house.

Probably the easiest way .

Well, I threw away a lot of bananas today.

I bought them last week, or possibly the week before, but then was poorly and didn't eat them.

I had a notion to make banana bread, then realised they were beyond help tonight, so I moved them for te first time in a couple of weeks.

Could he have come from those?

Actually, no, they don’t have antenna, because they aren’t insects.
I’ve just been looking online, and they are either called pedipalps or chelicerae
Their eyes are definitely on their head

Not the bananas, it’s just a normal house spider, albeit a big one.
It won’t hurt you

I don't want anything with pedipalps or the other thing in my home!!!

I'm sure they always come in twos, don't they?
You find one, then find an even bigger one!
Its mating time or something..