Regular readers of our blogs will remember that we asked for ideas for a name for our van. Sheila and Matilda being the most popular, but cliched nominations, we finally settled on Tilly, short for the more common Matilda. Now we're going to start a new competition. The redback spider that lived in our gas cupboard until we evicted her, well killed her, seems to have left us a present of some babies to adopt. Apparently they produce something like 12 egg sacks, each full of 250 eggs. So we're after about 3,000 names, each preferably starting with R for redback. The babies all seem to be all doing well (unlike their mother), some are now taking their first wobbly steps into the interior of our van. We were pretty freaked at the idea of a
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