Uncle caught a small snake on monday and along with it came two eggs. We weren't sure if those were snake eggs or were they lizard eggs that the snake was trying to eat but my colleague broke one and it had an slightly developed embroyo on it (well, there was sort of a body and one big eye so its hard to tell what it would have been). The snake must be around the length from the tip of my fingers to my elbow. Quite a feisty little thing and was literally "bouncing" around in the bucket whenever we attempt to pick it up from the bucket. It looked like an ordinary grass snake but my colleagues and I could not agree if it is an small adult snake or a baby snake. In any case, the school uncle didn't think we ought to release it back to the field behind the school while I couldn't knowingly dump the snake in a plastic bag to kill it. Hence me and two other social workers took the snake to MacRichie Reservoir and let it loose near the forested area. When we shook the snake out from the bucket onto the grass, it was surprisingly placid and we could pick it up without it getting all hostile or attempting to bite (though it didn't seem to have teeth, or perhaps small ones). I think my colleague was seriously thinking of keeping it as a pet but in the end we let it go into the bushes, along with the other egg still left intact on the ground.

Actually, after the whole experience, what interest me most was the fact that there were actually people going jogging in the middle of the day in the blazing hot sun at the reservoir. I was quite ready to get heatstroke just by looking at them.