It’s actually a Labyrinth spider (I think) and 2 months later it’s still in the same place!
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If you were to play that video backwards it would demonstrate both, a superbly efficient fishing technique and a damned powerful vacuum cleaner!
And just increase you are interested (and why wouldn’t you be!)
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Slow worm, beautiful 
My sister has just seen ivy bees in London for the first time, and is very excited! I never knew there was a special bee so will go out to look tomorrow, but for those with ivy in flower in garden…
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The only time I have seen a slow worm was in Niton Undercliffe on the Isle of Wight but that was 56 years ago - how time flies!
A bad cat who played with a poor grass snake (who escaped and went and hid with only his or her dignity the worse for wear)
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I had a snake near the house today, wasn’t sure what it was but loos very like yours Vero!
Toilet snake perhaps Tory 
You don’t need to be quite as concerned of a snake here as you would have been in Oz.
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Useful to know the French for slow worm. We have several in the compost heap. Beautiful things…
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Quite! I had 3 VERY close encounters with deadly snakes on the farm as a kid. If it had gone badly we were nearly an hour from the hospital and a brown can kill you within 1/2 hour!!!
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I think that vipère aspics aren’t incredibly good news - didn’t they do for Cleopatra? - but I imagine you have a lot more time to get to hospital than @toryroo would have done! Periodically I think about visiting Australia and then I read something like this…
No-one need worry about whatever snake they find…
simply look it in the eye and checkout the pupil… 
I can’t remember which way round the problem is… 
Thinking about wildlife in the garden, I set up a wildlife camera and all I got was cats invading the compost heap. However, this morning, looking out of the window I could see roe deer very close to the house nibbling our dwarf apple tree. This was a lovely sight as I’ve not seen them so close before but eventually I opened the window to shoo them off. They looked me in the eye for a moment and then bounded away. Beautiful animals but I need to rethink my policy on trees with dwarfing rootstocks… 
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