Snake in the grass

I think what we have there is a common adder. Well, more accurately what we HAD there as I've sinced caved its head in with the end of a hoe (it was the longest sharp implement I could find). Sorry, animal lovers.

PS This is not a political allegory

 

Best thing for it

Snakes aren't proper animals. They don't get hunted by the gentry so tha'll be reight.</p>

 

not a common adder

They wear massive hooped earrings.

 

RE: not a common adder

"Typically these markings are very pronounced and extremely easy to identify, consisting of a heavy dark zigzag pattern down the back with dark spots in rows on the flanks. At the back of the head there is a heavy “V” or “X” shaped marking and a dark band running from behind each eye"

http://www.adder.org.uk/test/about_adders.htm

But I may be wrong. What do you think it was?

 

Welcome to &quot;Stove It's F ucking Head In Corner&quot;, where intrepid presenter Burgundy Red shows you how to return a variety of God's creatures to their makers armed with only common garden implements. </p>

Next week - how to bludgeon a Springbok to death armed with only a sit-on lawnmower.</p>

 

LOL

It's a kind of eXtreme Gardener's Question Time.

 

"armed with only common garden implements"

next week he uses a "sit-on lawnmower"

You posh bugger! Or is this the type of sit-on mower my dad had when I was a kid when I'd sit on the mower as he pushed it around?!

 

I thought everyone had at least three acres  - it used to take me seven hours to mow Masterstroke Towers for Pater when I was trying to earn pocket money for my first Jag.

 

You did right

I spent some time on a big heath in Hampshire a couple of weeks ago, Adders and Grass Snakes all over the place, evil little bleeders

 

RE: not a common adder

definitely a middle class adder.

On an 'I was an incredibly stupid child' note. Me and some mates went adder hunting on the Isle of Wight and actually caught 1. Very bizarre, we put it in a large aquarium thing, because we'd heard a rumour that the Isle of Wight Zoo would buy them off you. They have a reptile house that is famous in the UK for venomous snakes. The owner had been bitten by enough snakes to kill him 100's of times over or something crap.

Anyway, some bloke from the zoo turned up, looked at it, put massive gloves on and took us all in the back of his van to release it in Parkhurst Forest.

Bast.ard didn't want to buy it off us. Still we got a ride in the back of a van with a strange man to the woods I suppose.

I'm scared shitless of them now, we were getting it to strike sticks and that!

 

what's all that white stuff?

 

RE: not a common adder

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...2.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/11/03/ixportal.html

that bloke that ran the zoo was from Halifax.

 

Side of the house and stones (n/t)