Well, let’s just say, there is one member of the Minti.com community who is going to turn even more purple upon reading this (it is rss fed through to my minti homepage). Minti members are going to know who it is straight away, and the wonderful member is going to be sitting at her computer yelling at me to get to the point.
Hold your pants Queen of the Daft. I’ll get to it all when I am good and ready. Not yet…still not ready…maybe soon…got to go for a walk now…Back again…sorry, baby needs feeding…too tired now…
Ok, enough teasing. I’ll get to it now.
Last night, I went down to the laundry to finish my duties for the night. Being dark down there, I reached to turn on the light, almost falling over the broom handle in my way. Light finally on, and I turned around to walk to the washing machine. Uh oh.
Right in front of my beloved machine was a rather small, scaley, and obviously quite cold reptilian friend. It was a baby snake (or it could have been a fully grown crown snake, though couldn’t be verified- keep reading to find out why). I had woken it from its peaceful slumber, all in the name of getting something remotely domestic done for the day.
As my little visitor became aware of the light, it sleepily lifted its head and began testing the air with its thread like tongue. ‘What? Who turned on the sun? I thought it was bed time’. You had to be there to see the way it moved.
Carefully placing the wash basket back up the stairs (to avoid another tempting hiding place), I went and got Les. He came down to have a look at our new visitor, which hadn’t moved at all. Yep, I wasn’t seeing things, phew!
Gradually, as we watched, our new tennant (remind me to remind him the rent is now overdue) began to make his (??- not verified) way very slowly off to the behind of the washing machine. Now, when I say very slowly, I mean as if it were moving in slow motion- the journey from being in front of the washing machine to disappearing somewhere behind it took about 5 mins. (more…)