Adders and slow worms.

At my fathers house he has a large piece of slate propped up against a sunny hedge.Underneath is the home of a large family of slow worms. There are fat pregnant mothers, and slimmer males. There are also small babies two or three inches long and as thin as a piece of parcel string. One day I looked underneath and was shocked to see a dark brown snake. I jumped in surprise thinking it was an adder.When I had a closer look I noticed a yellow mark just behind it's head. What a relief, it was a grass snake. We have never seen one in his garden before and wondered what it was doing there.
I wondered if they ate slow worms. If so it would have to be relocated , perhaps to our ponds. We looked them up on the internet. It seems that mice, frogs ,slugs and snails are the favourite food so that was a relief.
Chris my husband and I went picking sloes to make some sloe gin for the Winter they are big and juicy this year, we thought we would pick a few blackberries as well to go in the apple pies.
We were happily pottering along the cliff tops picking some nice fruit when Chris said "Look out there's an adder" Lying curled up in the path was a large adder. It looked at us then slithered at speed into the undergrowth. They do look malignant. I really don't like them at all.
I thought to myself that the gin was quite drinkable without the sloes and the apples would be fine without the blackberries,so we went home. We have since been out picking but this time on a cloudy dull day when adders are in their nests.