sian, when my kids were small we encouraged them to give the spiders names. They always seemed less yucky and frightening to them that way. We had a lot of George's and Gloria's running around here....and of course the proverbial Boris.

Liz, I sympathize, I get at least one stuck in my hair every morning when I leave home.

However, I always feel a bit badly because she has expended so much energy on her creation and I've managed to wipe it away in a moment.....but not badly enough to stop sweeping the ceilings in the house. I have a lovely Victorian horse hair duster on a very long handle, expressly for the purpose.