So, we have guests over the weekend.... quite a few of them..... and I have had to give up my bed and sleep on the snake room floor. At some point during the night I must have rolled over and pushed open the radix tank sliding glass door.

At around 7am I was woken by a scream from the landing, as I opened my eyes I immediately saw the tank door open by a good three or four inches. I rushed out of the room to see one of our lady guests staring in horror at a snake on the floor. At my arrival she screamed again....... I was naked.

I grabbed the escapee and quickly retreated. On returning the traveller to his tank and doing a quick head count, I realised that there was another one loose. I had no sooner realised this, than I spotted him only a foot away.

It's probably over a hundred years since I had my last escaped snake, and I was lucky to get them both back so quicky and with no searching necessary. Close thing!