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    OFF THE SCALE!

    Dec 02, 2021 5 minutes

    Cautiously opening the boot of our Vauxhall Astra, I looked around me to see whether anyone was watching.

    ‘Matt, he’s enormous!’ I whispered to my husband as a pair of big black eyes stared up at me.

    Taking up the entire space of the boot was our newest addition to the family – a humongous 6ft long, chunky, and scaly black-throated monitor lizard.

    The monster’s forked tongue flailed around as it looked as though it was sizing me up.

    ‘He’s got a bit of a gut on him,’ Matt, 38, smiled as he tickled the lizard’s chin.

    ‘Quickly, let’s get him in the house,’ I told Matt, feeling slightly on edge about the prehistoric-looking beast who was chilling in our car on

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