chunder down under

Geckos are cool. I love watching them climbing around the walls at home, and the way they can creep up on bugs who seem totally oblivious to them. Although they are speedy little things they are quite easy to catch. Rowan caught one on the deck one night although it dropped its tail - I hope they grow back. They look really weird, almost transparent with no colour to them and big balck eyes. The strangest thing about geckos is the sound they make - a sound which is surprisingly loud for such a tiny creature - kind of like a bird call, an unnerving clacking sound which spooks you until you know what it is. They are the only creature here that I don't mind in the house. We have massive cockroaches, my personal bane the mozzie and we even used to have a local snake. This old biddy a couple of doors down stepped on it in the dark in her kitchen and beat it to death with her walking stick. I can't say I blame her as it must have been quite a fright but it was just a harmless python rather than a poisonous one. As our bathroom is outside I'm always a bit careful going out there in the dark, especially as we leave the door open.