While making DS's lunch yesterday I spotted a spider on the kitchen floor - I am afraid I killed it (not good with spiders and was not in brave mood). Our second floor city flat doesn't get many spiders and when we do, they are usually the horrid big brown/black house spiders which, while nasty and scuttly, are familiar to me. And even when I lived in "the country", usually they were the only kind I'd see.
But this one was different - medium size, both parts of body rather large and cushiony and grey with a sort of silky, hairy look. Legs distinctly brown rather than black. Large mandible-style bits at the front, moving in a menacing fashion like a film villain rubbing his hands together while plotting doom. Not that I am being unfair to the spider, or anything
Anyway, I know I am being paranoid but I just wondered whether this might have been an unusual or dangerous spider. Anyone know? Cannot understand where it came from unless it fell out of the cauliflower I was chopping at the time.