h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It's probably a better time than when it's too late for them.

So t'blog didn't make the shortlists. Thank you all for helping me give it a go though! all round!

You were robbed!

Here's a for deserving it anyway.

Deb

Don't let it stop you blogging - I think you're creating something interesting there.

...unusual roadkills... ...once, when I was working in the central coast area in California, besides the usual squirrels and rabbits providing a focus for assemblies of turkey vultures, magpies and ravens, it was also shiny black tarantulas with abdomens a bit over 2"/5cm in diameter that looked like giant black widow spiders...

I thought tarantulas had alternating bands of yellow and black. No?

Not that I've ever seen, though the ornate garden spider does, colors the swallowtail butterfly.

The Mexican red Knee Tarantula is what I was thinking of:

http://photographyblogger.net/21-chilling-pictures-of-tarantulas/

Naturally, I agree with you both, debs and Icy (and thank you!), but it's ok. They are quite competitive, these awards, so it was always a long shot, especially as I blog considerably less often than most, and don't network so energetically. I think of it as 'slow blogging'. Give me another year or two...

Which is why I am not bothering you for more votes. The next awards, I've just realised, don't have a newbie category and also are almost entirely based on number of nominations/ votes. Be interesting to see how similar the lists are for the categories that are the same.

Spiders. My son put a spider in my bed last night. Not the plastic tarantula he's been chasing his sister round with all week, but an actual (already dead) spider. He was extremely disappointed that I didn't wake him up by screaming in the middle of the night this morning.

That said, I could live very happily with tarantula road kill. Not at all as heart wrenching as seeing a squashed bunny, imo.

Keep blogging