I'd need those big knickers if I were forced to enter!

LOL, you are making me chuckle hard. It's a long time since @thesteemengine, glad you are still around and posting!

you'd have to watch out for poisonous snakes in the heat of summer, both inside and outside the house

I have still yet to see even one in my lifetime alive in the wild. We have but a couple, and only one that is venomous. They don't like humans much, especially me!