[pendy]

Grass snakes can grow quite large. My cousin in Kent kept losing fish from her pond, as did her neighbours, so they kept a look out for a heron. One day she noticed something greenish hanging over the pond. Thinking it was a plant which had fallen down, she went over to put it back. It was a grass snake, and she said it was as thick as her arm - obviously well fed! It could have been a baby python that had got loose, but more likely to be a grass snake, sort of sludgy greenish thing? Yes, I fear, loathe and detest snakes - but it's a question of "know thine enemy"!