Clarity

I went a bit mental in the garden tonight. I only meant to cut the grass, but ended up cutting down nettles and periwinkles and trying to avoid cutting the buttercups.

The landfill bin has been locked in the shed after the debacle with the Council over the dumped recycling waste on our garden, to prevent any more possible strategic "dispersal" of waste from neighbouring properties.

We've also evicted a number of very large spiders from the house recently, and I've taken to transporting them close to the shed so that they are not so exposed in the garden and have a chance of making a nice home by the shed. Well, it turns out that possibly a couple of these evicted spiders may have got on very well. Very well indeed....... as the wheely landfill-bin's side and lid are now lavishly covered in layers of webbing, containing several bundles of baby spiders. They are mostly still clumped together, but I can see that they have begun to wander out into the shed.

I wonder if they're baby huge spiders, or baby garden hunting spiders? The fast, small, running ones that live in the grass and on the fence? Time will tell. In the meantime, the shed is a spider-nursery and I can't put anything in the bin!!