A cobra in my kitchen

On a Sunday afternoon I walked into the kitchen to get some juice for the children when I saw a snake disappear behind some things. In the seven years we live in the bush now we got used to encounters like this so I stayed quite calm. I first got the juice for the kids and brought it out. Because I didn’t want to risk losing the snake and having him startle me later I got our snake-stick. This is a stick of about a metre long with on one side a sort of a beak that you can open and close with a handle on the other side of the stick. My friend happened to be visiting that day with her one year old son. She lives in the bush as well and has even more experience with snakes