Sunny-wet conditions this morning in Perth. Tried to do some weeding in between bouts of rain...nearly jumped out of my skin when I came across what looked like a baby snake (dugite or brown snake, I thought).....went over to the landlord (lives around the corner) to pay the rent and asked him about it. He immediately identified it as a legless lizard....a kinda lizard that looks and acts a lot like a snake....makes sense, cos even though it moved away from me like a snake, I couldn't figure out why it's head didn't look like any snake head I'd seen before!

Anyway, as he rightly poined out, with the cat often camping out just next to the spot where I saw the creature....would be little chance of any snake - let alone a baby - hanging around too long.

So, all we need to worry about now are keeping away from the redbacks and huntsman spiders. At least, we're not living in Cairns......check this out:

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24544763-24331,00.html

And you thought Shelob (from LOTR) was bad!!

Anyway, have to turn the clocks forward an hour tonight...WA goes onto DST from 2am....sigh