I always thought Little Miss Muffet’s reaction was slightly extreme, leaping off her fabled tuffet at the sight of a spider. The plump 19th century schoolgirl tossed her bowl of curdled milk aside when the tiny arachnid descended to make her acquaintance. Foolish child, but it’s just a nursery rhyme and no real harm came to her or the spider - I suppose you could say it had a happy ending. Sadly the same can’t be said of the furore which our much maligned eight-legged friends seem to have stirred up over the past couple of weeks. An unhappy ending is looking likely as equally foolish people whip themselves into a frenzy over the appearance of the apparently “deadly” false widow spider. The country is under attack from a ferocious, fanged villain armed with deadly poison and intent of rampaging through our homes killing everything in sight, according to reports. It has been responsible for “almost” lost limbs, children “nearly” dying, and victims “narrowly avoi...