A Sydney mum has come face-to-face with a metre-long snake curled up in her daughter’s room.

Listener Meg was tidying up her daughter’s room on Friday night when she noticed, what she thought was a shoelace, curled up amongst the toys.

Meg caught the snake in a container and placed it outside on a tree.

Meg told Ben Fordham the surprise visitor appeared at bedtime.

“I thought it was a shoelace … I was actually going to pick it up and then I thought ‘oh I’d just turn the light on and see what it is.'”

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