exciting life - steve irwin eat your heart out
I have just spent the last hour or so trying to wrangle a 4ft black snake out of my house before I think about going to bed. Gets the heart pumping....no Steve Irwin "grab'm by the neck and look 'em in the eye" stuff though.
A broomstick and a handy cane knife in case he decided to head into the bedroom instead of out the back door.
Best aerobic excercise, the old heart rate almost doubles.
:eek:
david p.
Re: exciting life - steve irwin eat your heart out
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Originally posted by david petley
Best aerobic excercise, the old heart rate almost doubles.
:eek:
david p.
You should be a senior mod :D
Re: exciting life - steve irwin eat your heart out
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Originally posted by david petley
I have just spent the last hour or so trying to wrangle a 4ft black snake out of my house before I think about going to bed. Gets the heart pumping....no Steve Irwin "grab'm by the neck and look 'em in the eye" stuff though.
nice one, I was in the same situation once, not in merry old england where nothing is venemous except people in retail. I was in costa rica alone at a friend's house, a simple shack with no walls, sleeping in a hammock and a fer de lance tried to crawl in with me
:eek:
it had come up an abutting tree from the ground and seemed to think my hammock was a good place to hang... someone getting out of a hammock in an emergency is not a pretty sight! After I picked myself up off the floor I grabbed a machete and prepared for an atavistic struggle for survival! I didn't want to kill him but he was just hanging there, half on the tree and half in the air swaying. I thought the sight of a half-naked crazed pasty englishman waving a two foot knife would scare him but apparently he had seen it all before...
in the end he succumbed to my bashing the tree with the machete and disappeared into the dark but I slept with one eye open that night.
funnily enough I never had any close encounters in my trips to australia, even when camping in the outback for a couple of weeks, so don't let the stories put you off going ;)
Re: Re: exciting life - steve irwin eat your heart out
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Originally posted by aversion
I thought the sight of a half-naked crazed pasty englishman waving a two foot knife would scare him but apparently he had seen it all before...
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They feed on lizards, frogs, birds and small mammals...
and are especially fond of pasty englishmen.
He was after you, mate
:)