Why oh why do I see things of interest at the allotment when I don't have my camera!?!
On the end of my new patch there is a heap of old mouldering carpet, and I thought today, during a break from digging, I would start to bag it up to take it to the dump. Lifted top layer and a nice long snake way laying there looking up at me. Not frightened of snakes so had a good long look, decided it might be a grass snake, but it could have been a slow worm. Just googled it and now I don't know! Actually, when I moved more of the carpet there was snake, his friends, family, inlaws, and passerbys! Never seen so many in one place. They were all different shades of tan and brown with no definate makings, so me thinks slow worms. I will take camera back tomorrow and have another look and see if I can get some pics.