We have a spider on an elaborate web outside the kitchen window. There is the web and a leaf stuck onto one of its corners where the spider goes sometimes for protection or maybe to lock out the light, I’m not sure. He’s a big spider. I have seen him with other insects trapped in the web. He knows his spider business. We thought: should clean those windows and get rid of that web, but I am torn. It is such a wonderful architectural product; it seems like cultural vandalism. so we are putting off the day.
The other day an enormous spider appeared on the living room wall. I am not particularly scared of spiders but this one almost took my breath away. I thought, if I kill it with The Economist or The London Review of Books, it would leave such a splatter on the wall and also, again, my better instincts prevailed, why kill? I managed to put a glass over it and then a strong piece of card under the champagne coupe and so was able to take it outside and let it crawl free in the courtyard. I wonder, is it my spider from outside the kitchen window whom I haven’t spotted recently. Maybe the storm dislodged him and using his wiles he sought refuge indoors. Anyway, the spiders or spider are still at large and I shall try not to kill them or him.
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