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March 31, 2008
A Lizard's Tale
On saturday eveing just after my daughter and her friend left to go out i received a phone call "Mum come quick, we're by the lift, we've found a lizard" so my younger daughter and I ran out to the lift and indeed they had found a lizard, a bright yellow and black lizard aboud the length of my hand. " You've got to take it inside, it's gonna die out 'ere" cried three little voices. I went back inside and found a shoe box and then we spent another ten minutes trying to get the bugger to go into the box because none of us was brave enough to pick it up. Eventually my younger daughter, lizard and myself were safe back inside. Then it dawned on me, What exactly do you do with a lizard? Answer, Ring the RSPCA of course and luckily i happened to have the number at hand, this is not the first time by a long chalk that my girls have brought home waifs and strays, i once had a extra teenager for a whole two weeks! Anyway i rang the nice lady at the RSPCA and she informed me that black and yellow lizards are native to England and i could put it back outside under a bush! Well to say i was surprised is a bit of an understatment in all my years i've never ever seen a lizard in England, but i did what i was told and took the lizard back outside.
Today i decided that i needed to find out more about english lizards so i 'googled' 'native english lizards'and i found some photo's that didn't look anything like the little chap we found, so now i am left wondering whether i should have let him go.The other interesting thing i found out quite accidently was that a 'lot lizard' isn't actually a lizard at all, I very rarely give advice, but i will say best not use 'lot lizard' as a term of endearment for any females you wish to remain friends with!And to finish the best quote i came across while on my lizard quest was 'Sometimes the worst evil is done by good people who do not know that they are not good' Reinhold Niebuhr.What did we ever do before the internet?
Posted by Shelliz at March 31, 2008 05:46 PM