Long Legs and a Long Way to Grow

Just to continue with the long-legged theme of my blug so far, here's a quick share of something that made me smile when I walked into our bathroom the other week:

This type of spider is what I have always known as a daddy long-legs (or in this case, a baby long- legs) from the family Pholcidae. They can grow to be very big and usually hang upside-down in untidy, irregular webs of their own creation... but this tiny novice seemed perfectly content hanging from a ready-made hair on the side of our (otherwise quite immaculate) basin.