starrkers
Down two, then left
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Here I am, sitting in the shack, messing around on the computer. The boys are on the Playstation in the next room.
Then I hear daughter: "Billy! Don't play with a snake!"
I go to the door and yep, sure enough Billy (young cat) is chasing a snake straight at me. It goes around my legs and into the shack. The boys think quickly and stand on their chairs. Billy evades my attempt to grab him and continues to bat at snake, which I have already identified as a young brown snake (only the second most poisonous in the world).
I'm wearing thongs (flip flops to you lot), the cat is hassling the hell out of this bloke and he is intent on escape, until he gets cornered. Then he turns on the cat.
Billy is unfazed and continues to harass snake, which finally slithers behind a couple of boxes in the corner.
Billy loses interest immediately and wanders off outside.
I hunt kids out of the shack and ring hubby. He borrows a snake catching kit and comes home.
Snake can't be found.
We think he escaped through a crack between wall and floor and continued on his merry way, particularly because Billy lost interest so fast, but he could be still inside or under the floor.
The boys are now back on the Playstation, and I'm back at the computer. And Billy? He's off looking for more reptiles to annoy.
I have changed my footwear. I'm now wearing workboots.
Then I hear daughter: "Billy! Don't play with a snake!"
I go to the door and yep, sure enough Billy (young cat) is chasing a snake straight at me. It goes around my legs and into the shack. The boys think quickly and stand on their chairs. Billy evades my attempt to grab him and continues to bat at snake, which I have already identified as a young brown snake (only the second most poisonous in the world).
I'm wearing thongs (flip flops to you lot), the cat is hassling the hell out of this bloke and he is intent on escape, until he gets cornered. Then he turns on the cat.
Billy is unfazed and continues to harass snake, which finally slithers behind a couple of boxes in the corner.
Billy loses interest immediately and wanders off outside.
I hunt kids out of the shack and ring hubby. He borrows a snake catching kit and comes home.
Snake can't be found.
We think he escaped through a crack between wall and floor and continued on his merry way, particularly because Billy lost interest so fast, but he could be still inside or under the floor.
The boys are now back on the Playstation, and I'm back at the computer. And Billy? He's off looking for more reptiles to annoy.
I have changed my footwear. I'm now wearing workboots.
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I know you made up that spare bedroom for my visit...but I've changed my mine. Maybe some other time of year. Or some other year. Decade.....
