On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:08:52 +0100, MikeCT wrote
(in article ):


"Bob Hobden" wrote in a message:
snip Once common snake in the UK now getting rarer, not poisonous at all
but a big one (3ft+) will give you a nasty nip if angry. I speak from
experience!!!
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If angry, apart from nipping you, they often emit a rather foul smelling
liquid that l-i-n-g-e-r-s. As I have found to my cost.



Also if threatened they will play dead. The cats found one in our garden
once and it just froze in a coil. We watched it for ages and it didn't move
an inch until we took pity on it and put some cover in front of it, then it
was off.



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Sally in Shropshire, UK
Whitton Open Gardens weekend 1st & 2nd July; enjoy the conservation
churchyard recently filmed for the BBC Heaven and Earth Show and see the
Burne-Jones/William Morris window: http://www.whitton-stmarys.org.uk