INDEX	March 18, 2019
This morning I saw a golden object lying on the pavement in Luton Road, Chatham. It looked like jewellery. But when I bent down to touch it, the thing jerked away. Was it an elver? Hardly, too far away from the Medway. In fact it was a tiny Slowworm, the smallest I've ever seen; no more than four or five inches long. When I was a boy I used to love watching (and sometimes catching and then releasing) slowworms who were often to be found on a steep bank on some green land at the end of the road I lived in. The adult ones are quite brown (or silver brown). Clearly the pavement was not a tenable place for a young slowworm to survive and thrive, so I scooped it up and released it on a patch of green.
INDEX Jonathan Brind		March 18, 2019