A snake about half a mtr long.

Any ideas on type ?

Don't know but I wouldn't of been around long enough to take the picture

Did you drop your keys and run away screaming like a school girl?

Looks like a snub-nosed viper mate.


http://www.tigr.org/reptiles/species...ecies=latastei

i was thinking along the very same lines as you there Matt - well i wasnt thinking he would run away screaming like a girl - honest

No, I put then down to show the size, the car key is 8.5 cms, and the slabs are 30 cms, so I reckon around half a mtr long.

I think you are right about the viper.

Looks hungry. Did you feed it?

We had one of these in our garden in Chiclana - didn't realise when I caught it in a box and took it to some scrubland that it was poisonous!! Eeeek!

OMG you were soooooooooo brave catching it,you wouldn't of seen me for dust.........I would of left the premises and gone for help,a couple of years ago I had something like a very large bee in the house,I left sharpish kept looking in the letter box to check it was still there and then got a neighbour to get it out such a coward

Father Christmas was very late, very skinny and had dressed down for the occasion obviously!

Didn't have much choice! Hubby was up a ladder and wouldn't come down (!!), our daughters were hysterical and had locked themselves in their bedrooms, so I donned my marigolds (two pairs - safety first!) and cornered it! Would probably just encourage it to move along with a broom now though! Must admit my heart was in my mouth when it made a move to bite me - the things we mums have to do! I ran down the lane as fast as I could, adrenaline pumping, dropped the box and scarpered. The funny thing was, when I told my parents, they said that they'd seen one the year before and didn't mention it as they didn't want to scare the girls!