GrumpyDaddy

Our youngest son recently turned two and is empbracing his third year with gusto. Far from the cliched terrible twos he's instead the same funny smiling boy he always has been. Yes he's a little more definite in his opinions but on the whole he's the happiest person I've ever met.

While his favourite playmates are his older brother and sister his favourite unrelated friends are spiders. Here in Dorset we have an astonishing spider population, they surround all the windows of our house and every space in the garden. I never saw anywhere near as many spiders as I have since we moved to this part of the country.

And our little boy completely adores them. He cheerfully waves to them when he sees them "Ello pider" he says. He'll happily stand at the window for twenty minutes watching a stationary spider - occasionally offering an "Ello" or asking me to come "pider look, daddy, pider look".