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Garden Terror!
On 2009-06-21 20:39:26 +0100, K said:
Sacha writes Later, she found the sloughed skin and brought it in which gave me a bit of a start when I found it on the window sill in the back corridor! I was wandering along a path in Portugal when I cam across the crumpled skin of an adder-type snake lying across the path (black diamonds along the whole length). 'Husband would like that' I thought, then some cautious instinct kicked in, and I reached out very carefully with the toe of my boot and touched the tip of the tail, whereupon the 'skin' headed into the undergrowth at a rate of knots! Shudder! As David says, there must be some atavistic instinct that prevails on these rare occasions! My step-daughter (heavily involved in horsey world) was telling us today that horses are sometimes bitten by adders in warm weather because the horses are happily grazing and plonk a hoof on or near a snake which rears up and bites the horse on the mouth or 'nose'. Vets come out immediately and inject the antidote as horses can be very allergic. -- -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics. South Devon |
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