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Due to the ridiculously high number of lizards in our flat, and the resultant mountains of lizard poo, Sandy has been performing her annual lizard cull. Yes, I know lizards eat the mosquitoes and ants but they also poo everywhere and have a habit of killing themselves in electrical appliances and damaging the appliances at the same time.

When Holly and Mum were over a few months back they smelled burning in the kitchen one morning and found a gecko with its body and tail in the toaster and its head and forelimbs protruding from the front of the toaster, pressing down on the handle. The gecko had short-circuited the appliance and was slowly grilling itself alive. We’ve also had lizards in the washing machine, fridge, microwave, bread machine and printer (the HP repair staff loved that).

Sandy’s already caught a couple of geckos in her lizard traps but she has her sights set on catching Godzilla. This monster of a house lizard lives behind the bookshelves in the hallway and is so big you can hear its tail swishing as it moves. I haven’t seen it but from Sandy’s look of terror earlier today and the hair on her arm standing on end (I have a hairy wife), it’s surely a biggun. We’ve set a trap on top of the bookshelves but according to Sandy the lizard is too big for the trap. Normally we would borrow one of our neighbours’ cats to hunt the giant lizard but all the cats, including ours, have been eaten by the pythons.