English spiders

English Spiders

I love spiders. But yesterday a small spider was crawling over the keys
of
my word processor and in attempting to remove it, I accidentally killed
it.
I cried as I saw its small body motionless on my desk.

I thought "Am I being silly crying over the death of a spider?" But I
also
thought that I had not taken due care of my small insect friends.
There
are few flies here. The spiders' webs are small, and I do not remove
them
from the top of the windows. Most of them are outside.

A minute after I had cried over the death of the small spider, I went
into
my bathroom and to my delight there was a large spider (which I call
a
Daddy-long-legs) . But it is probably a common "House Spider" -
Tegenaria
gigantea) - and the larger form is the female.

I thought this spider had come to console me. When I had a bath I put
it
on the window sill and it crawled outdoors but today it has returned
and is
resting undisturbed in the empty bath.