Funny story found on BBC tonight:

A tarantula was spotted lurking in a bunch of grapes - as a father prepared to give them to his four-year-old boy.

Kevin Hudson, 40, of Elmswell, Suffolk, found the spider in the grapes he had bought at Asda, in nearby Stowmarket, as he washed them for son Rhys.

He caught the 2.5in (5cm) creature and took it to his local vet and it is now being housed at a local reptile centre.

Must have been bloody scary!

The thing is, my mum says the same thing happened to her father when she was in her teens, so we’re talking about in the 1950’s here, probably just when rationing was being eased off. They had a bunch of bananas and out scurried a tarantula. Horrid thing got whacked and splattered mind you …