I have just parked my car and climbed out, still humming the last song I was listening to when a shreeeeeeeeeek comes from the direction of the gallery. A small group of people are huddled around something (?), and all the cleaners are standing/hanging onto something that is not the ground.
As I approach I am told by 5 people at once that I must be careful as there is a boomslang (a very venomous snake) on the stoep. I kind of stop walking with my one foot still in the air. Snake? Venomous? What do you mean?????
Well, apparently snakes regularly seek out the air-condition shops to escape the Lowveld heat and humidity. This one almost made it to the hairdresser's shop.
I sit the whole day, and the next day, and the next day constantly checking the gallery door... Snakes have not featured in my "daily life" until a couple of days ago... it is all terribly exciting...
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