Someone I know is emigrating and he decided to gift me his Lopophora williamsii aka Peyote plant. I have never seen such a big one and I'm wondering if it didn't grow really fast due to a lot of fertiliser. Whatever the reason for its size, this beauty flowers every year so it's no baby, he had it at least 7 years and I'm terrified that I will kill it.
In 2019, I collected some seeds that were in the pods it had made and sowed them but they didn't germinate, they must have been too old. This plant has already three little offsets at the base, also called buttons:
The other reason I'm worried I might kill it is because it has already bounced back from an unknown affliction, which left it looking sunken and collapsed in on itself at the end of 2019 but somehow it recovered and regained its turgor although now it has some healed tunnel holes, the largest one looking like this
It was growing outside at the time so perhaps some kind of worm went tunneling. Definitely a tough cookie but still... Any advice is welcome, 
This evening, I went to visit the vegetable garden and found this sweetie under a cabbage leaf
A young Boadon capensis or Brown House Snake. They are common in my area and are known to hang around close to houses, eating mice, rats and other small reptiles. One of the smallest members of the python family they are harmless because they have no venom and suffocate their prey. They do have little teeth that can draw a little blood and they will bite in self-defence (been there, done that). This character was unusually chilled, didn't dart off but remained in place as I went to fetch my phone to take photographs and gracefully allowed me to take a couple of shots before going on its way. This is the second time I have encountered it in the vegetable patch, perhaps there are mice sneaking around when Peanut is dozing, or it is hunting geckos. The ones that Peanut didn't eat....
The lizards, geckos and skinks are having a hard time this year although I have seen many young ones so at least they are breeding successfully. It pains me to find their little mutilated corpses inside the house and out