Ed and some of his friends went kayaking in Cambridge. When I picked them up, I was greeted by Ed thrusting a plastic cup, covered with a paper napkin, under my nose. In some other parallel universe, he might have popped into Starbucks and bought me a coffee in return for my taxi-driving services. In reality, the cup contained a small snake. The boys were very excited; we're going to keep him as our class mascot, we've called him Timmy, we found him stranded in the bottom of a boat and rescued him....
After much debate, Timmy was identified as a baby grass snake - a harmless species, and we released him back into the wild!
Snake!!!! I prefer them as jelly lollies. Us and Ireland...no real snakes. And sorry I seem to of misled people! I will not be lambing, dairy farmer so calving. Lambing is what my neigbours will be doing. We have about 68 more cows to calf and job done!! We start breeding in about 6 weeks.
'In some other parallel universe, he might have popped into Starbucks and bought me a coffee in return for my taxi-driving services. In reality, the cup contained a small snake.'
I don't know, a thank you coffee would have been gone in 5 minutes, a thank you snake is the give you can keep and enjoy for a long time lol. Great shot :)
With only a moment this morning, I had to say I'm roaring about your parallel universe story! But that's EXACTLY how I learned to get used to snakes when my little brother did that when we were kids! Hint: Show no fear! (You're a good mother...) Pretty little snake!
Although I'm a big supporter of animal rights - I can't say I'm willing to support most snakes. The harmless garden snakes like this one are okay, as long as I know - before we are introduced - that it is a harmless snake. However, I still don't think I'd be happy with having one very close to me, says the girl who grew up in the country with Copperheads in the yard and Water Mocasins in the pond behind the house!
Hahahahaha!