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Of course you may call me nun, a lot of folks on AB call me that (one has been known to call me nunny honey!)
I was forgetting that you lived abroad where venomous snakes are more likely to be found. We only have the odd grass snake or adder to contend with - mind you when I was at school we were taken to Edinburgh zoo where we went "behind the scenes" and the keeper had some snakes out for us to look at - we found out later that one of the snakes we had touched bit that keeper when the other group of students had their turn ( he said nothing until the students had left)