Life in Beckworth » snake http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth Bringing you the (almost) everyday comings and goings of the residents of Beckworth, a typical English market town. Informing you about their lives through the mediums of words, images, an interactive map and stereophonic sound recordings Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:56:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Poisonous Snake Found http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth/clifford-pinner/poisonous-snake-found/ http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth/clifford-pinner/poisonous-snake-found/#comments Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:09:59 +0000 a resident of Beckworth http://visitbeckworth.co.uk/life-in-beckworth/?p=1267 Continue reading →]]> Dear All. Please take care and be vigilant as Beckworth may have become infested by a swarm of hostile snakes!! I have just found one in a lettuce on my allotment, and looking it up on Dr Brian Cox’s website have identified it as the world’s smallest venomous snake. To quote the keyboard-playing professor it is called “the pygmy cheese python (latin: pythonus camembert pygmius), is a native of Southern France and Belgium that likes to make it’s nest in soft cheeses, can grow to over 2″ in length and has a venom so strong it could kill two grown men with one bite, if they were stood very close to each other.” In other words handle with caution as it’s a killer! I tried to hand this one into the Police but they said they don’t deal with vermin, so i’ve put back in my neighbours vegetable patch until I can work out what to do with it. Beckworth take care. Clifford

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(Above) The Pygmy Cheese Python photographed on my allotment just before lunch

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