I held a Tarantula

Never done that before and when the guy in charge showed me the big cardboard box of snakes, spiders, millipedes and scorpions he’d brought I nearly left the room but I was there to photograph some girls down at the SeaLife Park in Weymouth who’d had hypnotherapy to get over their fear of spiders and they were managing it, I thought, lets give this a go!

Lo and behold it was brilliant, the spider was light and calm and gentle and by the time she went back in her box I wanted tocuddle her like she was a kitten. Not even creepy when she walked and it’s that that normally freaks me out about spiders. Proof below:

Me with a lady Tarantula
Me with a lady Tarantula