He looks interesting David.

One reason that he looks interesting might be because he's actually a she ;-)

Didn't know that Arfon - thank you. :-)

How big was this specimen Dave?

The body was close to 2 inches. The image was taken at night firstly from the underneath so I wanted a shot from the top and moved around the web to change the angle, the lady I was with (not Linda) moved to try and take a leaf from the web. The Spider then squirted a milky white substance that we were later informed was some type of venom. The lady was impressed. :-)