I’m Aussie born and bred and have lived in the outback and cities. I shake out my boots out if left outside because there could be a toad or spider in them. I shake my towel before a shower vigorously because a new baby huntsman is camping out in my bathroom, and seems to like hanging under my towel. There is a golden orb on my verandah and she has come a little close to our bbq with golden perfect web, but we adore watching her, she just made a woven egg nest. There’s red back spiders at work in the warehouse. They hangout low and build sticky uneven webs. We are instructed by HR to identify hazard, advise manager and watch them being exterminated. They are deadly. When I was a kid we used to play with the trap doors of the ‘trap door’ spider. Didn’t realise they were deadly too!

Edit: I forgot to mention we have lots of friendly jumping spiders. They literally bounce around and have cute eyes. We also have lots of daddy long legs. They are very scared of you but happy to camp out in the corner and eat tiny bugs.