You learn something every day: most lizards are able to blink but snakes can't – hence the unblinking stare of a snake. Had the warm spring weather continued, I reckoned on seeing the first grass snake of the year soon, but now it's turned cool they have gone back to wherever they rest up – our wood pile, probably. Last summer I filmed a massive grass snake slithering across our top field towards the wood pile.
Snakes are up there with scorpions and giant spiders in the lexicon of unpopular wildlife: nature's equivalent to MPs, estate agents and we journalists. In the days when you had to give your profession on your passport, mine said 'Printer & bookbinder'.
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