Creepy Crawlies

Last night I was lying in bed next to Ryon and we were both reading our books when I heard this scurrying sound to my right which sounded like little mouse claws scuttling over paper. So I said to Ryon "I think we have a mouse in here!" Both of us remember the infestation we had in our studio flat in Ealing and it's not a very pleasant memory as such! So Ryon moved over to my side of the bed facing the opposite direction, having the floor by the right side of our bed in his field of view. He went on reading his book when suddenly he saw something moving along the floor quickly out of the corner of his eye. He said: "There is *something* in our room!" I just thought >please not a mouse< knowing they are hard to get rid off. No! It was better than that! It was a huge spider moving from under our bed and running off to the side of our room where he have a little niche with a basin and now it was hiding under my tracksuit bottoms. I couldn't actually see it that well as I couldn't find my glasses, but Ryon was already in fighting mode anyway. "Just sit on the bed and don't come down" He said putting his arm out as if to protect me from a horrible monster. He was clutching his heavy A4 sized Scetch Book and all his senses were alert! Quickly it had moved on to Ryon's pants on the floor and when it came out again Ryon slipped the book onto it and jumped onto the book. He then turned the book around with the shoehorn only to find the spider wasn't under there. It was gone! "Oh no" I said. "Ryon were is it?" "I don't know!" He prodded his pants on the floor and it moved out from under them and with some quick fencing like movements he fought it. Legs flew off in all directions until it stopped moving. I'm really sorry if this is offending the animal lover who might read this. I am an animal lover, too. Normally I tend to catch spiders and let them back out into the Milly (Nature Reserve opposite our house) where they belong, but this was one size to big and a notch to fast! There was no way I could go to sleep knowing that this creature was in our bedroom. Yesterday, I let Ryon do his job.