Baby Number 2

Had the anomoly scan (at 21 weeks) yesterday. All is fine. Baby number 2 probably still a girl but baby was curled up so quite hard to see.

Snake Attack

Yesterday was a bit traumatic for Benedicta - she got one helluva fright after a snake jumped out of the banana tree beside the washing line and set up camp in one of Hermann's cycads. I bravely went to investigate armed with a walking stick (one of Ronald's wedding presents - you always knew it would come in handy one day!) and despite all the screeching (Benedicta was in full voice) managed to spot this little fella. As you can see from the photos, it wasn't quite the green mamba that Benedicta had identified - more like a long green worm. Anyways, once I had hung out all the washing (Dida now refusing to go near the washing line) we did a spot of snake identification on the interweb and reckon its an Eastern Natal Green Snake - commonly known as a house snake and perfectly harmless.