"I don't like leaving my own country, Doug, and I especially don't like leaving it for anything less then warm sandy beaches, and cocktails with little straw hats." - Avi, Snatch (2000)
"And lizards." - Andi Best (2013)
It’s no secret that once I set foot on foreign soil, I am on high alert for those zippy little reptiles, basking in the sunshine and rocketing off into the shrubbery as I approach. I am fascinated by them, and have been ever since I saw my first one in the wild in Jersey back when I was 15.
Any sort of animal activity outside of the norm gains my instant attention – that’s why the pigeons and earthworms of the UK don’t get a second look until they do something awesome like master the unicycle or start a water fight.
Whilst out in Ibiza, I of course saw millions of lizards, traversing rafters, flailing along walls and darting between traffic, in all of their green, pink and even white, glory.
As my holiday progressed, I saw this T-shirt for sale on the forecourt of a store near one of the beaches I was heading to and didn’t give buying it a second thought. It features two lizards bearing tribe-like patterns along their bodies, standing in a Yin and Yang style composition and colour format. Almost completely unnoticed is the logo at the centre of the design for Melocotton Ibiza, which it transpires is a clothing brand championing a DJ collective based on the island.
I’m wearing this tee for Day 76 of my THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE challenge because it’s March, it’s 7 degrees, and it’s raining so the earthworms are about to do something spectacular any minute now…
