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| On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:03:07 GMT, "Yakman" wrote:
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| There have been scorpions living in Sheerness, Isle of Sheppey for some 200
| years. These live in walls in the old dock yard.
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| http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print...102285,00.html
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| almost anything is possible nowadays. My wife saw a small lizard in
| our Dutch garden last week.

That isn't surprising at all. Lacerta vivipara is common a LONG
way north of the Netherlands - I think that I saw one at 800 metres
near Inverness last week, though I didn't know they lived that high
there. And, with you, it could have been other lizards as well.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.