SPIDERS are particularly active this time of year, and arachnics in Reading have proved that they can also be artists.
All around the borough, as residents decorated their homes with webs, ghosts, and pumpkin faces to entertain trick-or-treaters, spiders at the University of Reading’s Whiteknights campus were busy preparing their own haunting exhibition.
On Hallowe’en morning, students and staff walking past the university meadows were treated to their very own spooky display.
Professor Chris Merchant, who took a photo of the spiders’ work, said: “It was great to see nature providing a Hallowe’en display on campus.”
A few days later, people walking through the churchyard of St Paul’s Church, Wokingham saw candles on all the churchyard’s gravestones.
The path through the churchyard is a well-used cut-through between Oxford Road and Reading Road, and people passing through can’t have failed to notice lights flickering on every grave.
Not put there by ghostly hands, the candles were placed by members of the church, for their All Souls service, as inside the building they remembered lost loved ones.
