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my goodness, what kind of snake is it and were did you discover it.

28 Apr, 2010

 

Hi it's a female grass snake about a metre long, she slithered out of my old shed a few years ago. I like snakes so I had no qualms about handling her. She hissed a bit and gave off that awful smell which is supposed to make you drop it, but I took her round to a neighbour to show her off. Pretty hey?
Her head is about the size of my thumb!
we also have 4inch multi coloured dragonflies that dance on the lake, I rescued one from a spiderweb in the gallery one day, and was rewarded with an enchanting clean up job by the creature ( after I had used a fine paintbrush to get the ball rolling!)He stayed on my hand for around 20 minutes to finish up before he headed off back to the lake. Thing is he had a bit of a bend in his tail, and I'm sure he came back the next day, as I was going to the car I felt this touch on my hand looked around and he was flying just above my head!!
Magic!

28 Apr, 2010

 

thanks for that Lucinda, made really intresting reading.

29 Apr, 2010



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