what would they do without us?

[Kathryn]

I answered a phone call this morning from my eldest daughter and was greeted by the sharp shriek of "where are you?" which rather rattled me I have to confess. She quickly reassured my "oh my goodness, what's happened" reaction by following up with "there's a spider downstairs ... can you come and rescue me?!"

Now, she does live about half an hour away but the dutiful mother downed tools and set off on a "Catch the spider mission". Bearing in mind I hate them too but probably slightly less than she does, I told her to get ready for my arrival ... the spider's freedom was about to run out!

A lot of curtain shaking later, the spider was removed from the premises ... with a large amount of girly squealing accompanying the procedure!

I've now got one very grateful daughter!
Kx