Two distinct species of spider ...

... live in our basil plants. They are too tiny to photograph with my happy snapper (but one day, when my ship comes in, I'm off the to camera shop). The first kind looks like a teeny pale off-white (greenish) pearl, with long, delicate, fragile legs. The second is long and brown with thick, almost stumpy (for a spider) legs, and jump instead of scuttling.
I know this because our basil was bolting to seed and so I harvested it yesterday. Then I chopped it up for freezing. Frozen basil holds its flavour, the dried stuff, not so much. Before chopping I shook each branch, to remove insect life. All that fell out was the odd ant or two (squashed) and these two types of spiders, about 12 or so all told. I picked them all up (tis ok, I have "soft" hands, like gun dogs have soft mouths) popped them into a tub, which Mr Brown would take outside to shake them out. He was quite busy with the running to and from the kitchen.

In other garden news, I remember spotting that the passion fruit vine was sending out a few flowers a while back, but then, just forgot about it. Mr Brown called me over to see this yesterday. What a relief, we will have fruit this year (what the possum chooses to leave for us anyway).
And we found my Pan, he was hiding all along beneath Mr Brown's pet grass.

Ta Da! Pan was a gift from Mr Brown, from years and years ago. He did his time spitting water into our fishpond back in Canberra and when we moved, well he wasn't left behind.