on the album 'brother sister' mentioned in my previous post, there is an instrumental track called 'snake hips'.
and on a post on this blog in april this year, i wrote about a rather large python that was hanging around our house.
well, a few nights ago i am very sure i heard a rather large python sliding about in our roof or, in not in the (shallow) roof, then on top of it. it was on the first full moon night in spring, after a few days of warmish spring-like weather. has that reptile been hibernating in our roof and just awoken after the winter? it's freakin me out a little - or perhaps a little more than a little, especially with a <4 week old baby in the house. and i've heard snakes are attracted to milk. i keep listening for it, especially late at night. i am alerted (more than usual) by 'little' sounds. our house often creaks, as it is made predominatly of red cedar. the creaks are freaky now. and that freak could be creeky now ... i hope it is - i hope it's out of the roof if indeed it was in there. we had blocked up (or attemtped to) some possible 'access by python' points at various times in the past ... did we in fact lock a python in there? we have a couple of opaque sky lights in the roof - one with a fluoro light inside. once when i took down the opaque perspex in the ceiling to change the light tube, i found a squashed-up tube of python hide in the roof near the side of the sky light hole.
i hope it's not up there. i am having irrational thoughts about tilting its head and it lifting up & dislodging the perspex with one of its large fangs and dropping down onto our floor and slithering up the hallway ... there are a couple of other possible (if quite unlikely?) access points into our house. i've got to take a deep breath & count to ten; give myself a rational talking-to. there are plenty of possums around - surely it is more interested in continuing to devour those? (not that i like the thought of that, either.) but what if it is trapped inside the roof, and getting hungrier & hungrier? admittedly i haven't heard it again since that night, although my sister who stayed over a few nights ago said she thought she did.
i just heard another little sound - but i think it was only a gecko on the window catching an insect. why can't snakes be more like their gecko cousins? in terms of diet, behaviour, etc.
i don't like snakes ... i'll happily pay someone to take this or other pythonms away if the opportunity presents itself ... i was i could call upon saint patrick to drive all the snakes out of my yard (if not australia) for good ...
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