<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/wpid-wp-1402319143710.jpeg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1783" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/wpid-wp-1402319143710-300x225.jpeg" alt="wpid-wp-1402319143710.jpeg" width="300" height="225" /></a>The garden is gradually taking shape, especially Jane's vegetable plot, however there are still areas under the trees that need taming. Yesterday I was shredding some branches and as I removed a branch from a pile underneath there was the largest snake I've ever seen in this country. It sat there long enough for me to get a couple of pictures before hissing at me then it slithered beneath a pile of logs. It was a metre long with a lumpy bit part way along which either mmeant it had recently eaten or "she" was going to lay eggs in the near future.

We looked it up and were pleased to find it was a grass snake and not an adder.