Our early-morning visitor

Last Friday, hubby, DS & myself went to Mum & Dad's in Brissie to start helping them clean-up & throw out in preparation for listing their house & moving up our way. It is quite a mammoth task as they have been living at their current address for over 47 years so there is a lot of acumulated treasures - lol. Also dad had been a builder so there was an awful lot of left-overs from jobs.

Friday night (early Saturday morning) we were awoken by noises in the bathroom. Mum originally thought she had heard a tap dripping but when she walked into the bathroom everything was quiet and as she didn't turn on the light didn't notice anything amiss - however after hearing more banging we thought a possum might have made its way in through the window.

On investigating further - this is what mum found when turning on the light. Not what you expect to have greeting you.

What did we do???? - well at 3AM the best plan of attack was to close the door & leave it till the morning when dad made a snake noose & he & hubby bundled it into the laundry hamper in the bathroom & hubby then released it on the creek bank down the back of mum & dad's property. I felt a bit sorry for the poor creature - lol - moving it from a lovely warm bathroom & depositing it down the backyard in a shower or rain but after a few minutes it gathered its bearings and slowly moved to shelter. Needless to say that the window was closed tightly the next night - lol