A gold coloured, fat, seemingly comatose creature that was stretched out on the shoulder of a woman in the Northern Advocate office caught our attention.
"Good gracious," we said, "Is that a lizard?"
"Don't say the 'L' word, you'll offend him," the creature's owner, Wendy Gillespie, quickly said.
"He's a bearded dragon and his name is Chubbs."
It turns out Chubbs was in his usual daytime place, on Ms Gillespie's shoulder while she went about her daily business - and, yes, people do tend to want to chat to her about her unusual pet.