So Mum needed to get into the loft, and the stepladder we normally use is "out on loan".
"No biggie," she said (paraphrased), "we can get the big ladder from outside."
The ladder is hollow, and, wouldn’tcha know it, small animals like dark, hollow places to make their nests.
Anyway, the upshot of this is that we woke up this morning to discover cobwebs and baby spiders everywhere. And guess who had to run round with the vacuum cleaner sucking them up?
Yep, Mum did.
Well, I’m certainly not going to touch them.