Lizzie – Is she a rival for Roland?

I seem to attract animals to my room.

In Mumabi in 2005, it was a family of pigeons who nested on top of our air conditioning unit (never thought through the health implications at the time, those were in the days before bridflu!) and in Sierra Leone recently, it was my old friend Roland, the rat, who kept me company.

I now have Lizzie the lizard and her 3 children Eddie, Scuttle and Scamp living in my bathroom (Thanks for naming them LG ;-) Though to be honest, they’ve been pretty bad at lizzarding.  I assumed they would be nice and sort out the ants who are also in my room, but apparently they don’t like ants! Lizzie does seem to be a world champion at catching moths and butterflies. I am beginging to pity them , as they fly in mnildessly flying to the light in my room, only to never reach nirvana as they are plucked with great skill from the air and promptly eaten.

Though today they do now seem to be spending more time in H’s room next door – obviously my hospitatlity is not quite up to hers!

 I shall try and post piccies later! As you can see i;ve been working (probably far too) hard since the group came yesterday and these are the sorts of distractions that can keep a man sane in the snatched moments of breaks when away working!