The same bunch of kids had been clambering over the walls at the back of our building for weeks, each time in more daring exploits. Last time they dropped down into our garden and ran across the lawn. Today they sat still on the grass long enough for me to photograph them. Their wide grins indicated that they enjoyed the attention. They had no idea that the photos would be taken straight to the police station so that the little vandals could be identified, arrested and charged.

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As I was loaded the photos to the computer in the study I remembered that I had forgotten to unpack the creatures that we had collected on our last holiday. Would they have survived so long without food? I needn’t have worried. Although he looked a little pale, our dinosaur lizard-snake was still alive. I led him like an enormous pet dog through the house and out to the back garden so that he could feast on the freshly-mown grass cuttings.