Same, but different

Ben has been in the Jungle in Belize and found that many things there are the same at Rock HQ.
There are some differences though, usually the size is different and also the frequency.
For example we often get big spiders at Rock HQ, and I mean big ones, the type that would tear the newspaper out of your hand and hit you round the back of the head with it for even thinking of squishing it. As a confirmed spider phobic I wait patiently whilst Tracey clears the bathroom of the eight legged monsters before I attend my ablutions in the morning.
The ones Ben has had to deal with are a shade bigger, as in the picture, one is crawling over his webbing after taking a dump.



We also have bushes here, bastard bushes, so called because the first thing you say after an encounter with one is bastard bush, in the jungle of Central America they have the bastard tree which as shown has a few more prickles than your average Gorse Bush on the common.




Then there are the ants, our two fields now clear, well nearly clear of Bracken have revealed about a thousand anthills, luckily none so big as the one Ben bumped into, each leaf on the mound has a very angry ant carrying it to compost inside the nest. You can see Ben's size 11 boot print on the mound.






We also get lizards, in fact we found a really fat Common Lizard about to pop and lay her eggs in our straw bales a few weeks ago. The photo Ben has of the lizard he found in the jungle is a monster, a five foot iguana. I would show it you but its not for the squeamish, they ate it you see.

He does take after me after all.