"Look Mum, there is a snake in your garden..."

Says Mastr 3 this morning while playing in kids space (there is a sliding door to outside you can see all along the back of the house).

I walked towards the door to have a look and he jump in front of the door and said "No Mum! You can't go out there".

Me: "I can't see one"
BJ: "The dog seen it too"
Me: "well she isn't barking and I can't see her either"

Not even a second after I said that dog starts giong crazy at the other side of the house and Mstr 13 yells out there is a brown in my side garden! He would have rode his bike over it if the dog hadn't started barking!

Bloody hell!

So it seems the workmen tearing our road apart atm have stirred the snakes up, which have made them decide the house is a 'safe ground". So snake was last seen going through the gaps in the bricks of the house in my side garden. Great *sigh*.

And now DH and boys have gone on their annual camping trip!

I'm scared to go into the laundry (which is where Mstr3 seen it outside of) because of the gap under that door. The laundry is full of washing because I have no water to wash, and the cat is still asleep in there from last night (lazy wench!)

So fingers crossed snake goes on a feeding frenzy of rats while in the bricks, and doesn't find it's way into my house.... must find out where DS put the snake bandage out of his school bag before they left...