I’ve booked a different trip for March and will give a bit more thought to Aus after I’m back from that. Meanwhile, all the possibilities (too much choice? so many variables!) are slowly marinating in the recesses of any grey matter I still have left.
Couple of other things on the domestic front happening too…but that is just normal life of course.
I’ve heard the same said about daddy long legs, but it’s apparently an urban myth.
OK, I’ll turn the billy down.
That’s my understanding, in some cases a female will knock off any male (sounds somewhat familiar) in range.
Don’t worry, there’s plenty of venomous elapid snakes to dance with 
I think I’m right in saying that the British house spider is a wolf spider (I’ll check). Australia has more species of wolf spider than is decent, but most of them live in the back yard. The big ones that get indoors, however… you’re in the shower stark bllck naked and you look up reaching for the soap and there’s this big brown hairy 8-legged thing on the wall just above the shower head. You conclude it’s a huntsman and your blood pressure drops substantially… and then the thing shoots forward like the clappers. 8-O
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when i was in south east asia i only saw one spider (apparently harmless and was pointed out to us by our guide) it was the macaques that you had to watch those buggers ambush you. Even in the wilds (tourist wilds that is) of borneo where we were told not to wander off the elevated path because of crocs and a moody bull elephant it was those monkeys that were the worst
A few years ago we stopped at Mt Gambier on our way to Adelaide. 2nd night in the hotel and I went to open a new toilet roll left on the bathroom window, put my middle finger down the cardboard tube and felt something really sharp, withdrew digit from tube and clinging onto tip was a rather large cockroach 
Shook hand with much gusto, roach splattered against tiled wall but was still alive so was scooped into bog brush holder and despatched outside.
@Gateshead Should have chopped its head off, it would have died in a couple of weeks.
When I ran the squadron bar in Germany we had loads of cockroaches around. One night I put one into a pint glass with a military grade thunderflash. It went off, the glass exploded into a million fast moving shards, the cockroach shook its head, gave me the finger and scurried off! Bombproof little critters!
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