Country diary: wrapped up in a spider's web

Buxton, Derbyshire: When the house breathes I can see the web billow, suggesting how the structure retains its integrityIn our house we operate a spider-friendly regime that can feel at times too weighted towards the arachnids. Yet I’m a sucker for the beautiful symmetry in the webs of orb-weaver spiders. This individual, possibly one of the widespread species in the genus Metellina, built in our bedroom last summer.The web was sited between the window frame and its reveal so that it sprea