Snakes on a ..... Carpet??
Oct. 1st, 2006 06:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thedothatgirlJust want to say WTF? I bent down between the old chair and the mahogany chest of drawers in the dining room to move the cable I spied on the carpet ( we've misplaced the camcorder lead and have been looking everywhere). As my fingers touched it the cable moved swiftly underneath the chest.
WTF! Enter hubs with torch to check it out. Yep it's a snake - exit stage left to do the quickest googling of our life to check the markings. There is only one poisonous snake left in the UK which is not found in the area but who knows what came in with the last bunch of bananas from Tescos. We ID the grass snake and hubs dons the gauntlets.
These are a bit blurred but you'll understand the camera shake.
My daughter's reaction when we call her to come and see "Can I hold it?" hehe, that's my girl. Snake liberated to the graveyard opposite the house.
WTF! Enter hubs with torch to check it out. Yep it's a snake - exit stage left to do the quickest googling of our life to check the markings. There is only one poisonous snake left in the UK which is not found in the area but who knows what came in with the last bunch of bananas from Tescos. We ID the grass snake and hubs dons the gauntlets.
These are a bit blurred but you'll understand the camera shake. My daughter's reaction when we call her to come and see "Can I hold it?" hehe, that's my girl. Snake liberated to the graveyard opposite the house.
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Date: 2006-10-02 08:44 pm (UTC)Back when I was first out of college and broke, I lived in a place in the woods outside the city, sharing the rent with a friend from high school. One day he was taking a bath and a snake fell out of the ceiling and *into the bathtub* with him. Freaky.
For months after that I would wake up in the middle of the night and swat at the covers, thinking a snake was there.
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Date: 2006-10-03 06:46 am (UTC)I had the camera out from downloading pics, I am not squeamish but I must admit I moved really quickly when I thought it was a snake. We don't *do* snakes in the UK - it's the first time I have ever seen one here and I would love to know how it got into the house.