Geoffrey David 'Spider' Nugent was the Street's first "eco-warrior", vegan, and didgeridoo owner. Spider turned up on his Aunty Emily's doorstep on 15th December 1997. The scruffy, ragged-trousered, Big-Issue reading, Holsten-Pils drinking, vegetarian, eco-warrier brought a wry smile to Emily's face when she asked him why he'd turned up out of the blue. He responded "My dad said you were a bit of a go-er so I thought you'd be cool with it. I won't sponge off you for long", "I've got the world to save and all that". Her nephew dropped out of his second year in Politics at University and went to Australia. He lived in a community in Queensland where he protested against zinc mining and rainforest depletion until he was deported around June 1996.