Things that bump in the night .....

[DaveP]

Milkmen get all sorts of unusual invitations. Allegedly Apparently you're not his type...

[JohnW]

Well tc - with grasshoppers the size of that on guard, who'd try to enter?

[aj]

Looks like a female Dark Bush Cricket, Pholidoptera griseoaptera.

[JohnW]

Which explains why no flat'at.

[Mick F]

Thanks AJ.

Just Wiki'd it, and I think you're spot on, though there isn't a page specifically for the Dark Bush Cricket.

[JohnW]

Just out of interest, is this "Dark Bush Cricket" indigenous to Britain? - and, Mick, how big was it in inches?

[Mick F]

I said earlier. You must've missed it.

The body was about 2" long, and indigenous to our back garden!

Quite a beast, and no wonder it woke me up!

[ferrit worrier]

I don't mind picking up spiders as I quite often do in our house. At certain times of the year they seem to be more active and if one of the girls goes into the bathroom or they find one in the bedroom etc there's usualy a scream and DAAAAAD quick

but pick up THAT beastie no thanks