LOOK WHAT WE FOUND...
anne nixon-ellery
Oscar shouts out there's a lizard in the pool... I'm kind of half hoping he's joking, but am always up for a challenge!
I peer into the water where the boys are looking & see this:
I'm guessing it's a newt... but I didn't grow up here. After very carefully following it around with the net I finally manage to catch it.
Of course the next question is ~ Mum can we keep it..? I agree to put it in our observation tank for a day or two.
But not knowing exactly what it is I put on rubber gloves to pick it up. I thought I'd picked it up really carefully but...
oops... sorry mate :\ Oscar wants to keep it till it grows back...
We've just built it a 'habitat' & the boys have named him Magnus Xavier...