I was wandering through to the kitchen the other morning half-asleep when something big moved on the floor. Instantly wakening up, I stopped and looked down to see a big snake just a few feet away from me in the corridor. Although we get lots of snakes in the garden, this was the first time I'd seen one inside. Once it realised that I was there it slowly slithered out of the back door and disappeared calmly into the undergrowth, leaving me a little bit shocked, and carefully watching wherever I walked in the house.