Slow worm!

Today it was time to make some adjustments to my black plastic protective layer on the long allotment.  The weeds were becoming too established in the areas where there were gaps in it, so I woke the pile of back up plastic from its dreary dark slumber and hauled it across to where it was needed.  To my delight I discovered that a slow worm had been sheltering in the warmth created by the plastic heap.  I'd encountered it before, under another area of black plastic that I had to lift for landscaping.  There was also a large toad, and it seemed to me they had been resting there in companionable silence for some time.  I was sorry to disturb them, and that I didn't have my camera.  Fortunately this time I had remembered it, so am able to show you.