A mum has posted a heartwarming video of the moment two of her children played a trick on their older sister which left her shouting in delight.
Lucy Saxelby's 18-year-old daughter Rosie was just back home from her studies at Loughborough University when her younger sisters Violet, 11, and Marigold, nine, took her by surprise.
They said they had baked a cake for her on her return.
But when Rosie pulled back the tea towel covering the 'cake' and took off the lid, she found Mikey - the family tortoise who had been missing for six months and was presumed dead.
Rosie can be heard shouting, "You found Mikey! Where was he?" as the tortoise is revealed.
Mum Lucy, from Moorhouse - between Newark and Tuxford - explained: "We've had Mikey for about three years.
"He had a pen outside and he managed to escape about three times, but we found him."
The family even tried gluing a GPS tracker onto Mikey's shell, but it didn’t last for longer than a week as he kept going under rocks and knocking it off.
Lucy's son then built Mikey a new pen from a building previously used for horses, which had rocks underneath so he couldn't dig out, and a foot-high fence around it.
He stayed there for the summer, but in September 2018 he went missing again.
Despite their best efforts the family couldn't find him, and as the months passed by they assumed he was dead.
However, when Lucy was putting out the washing recently, she asked Violet to check out a sunny patch of ground in the garden, as morning sunlight can bring tortoises out of their hiding places to bask. And there was Mikey.
Lucy added: "The kids were really happy. I think he's a better climber than we thought."
Mikey is now being kept in a vivarium until a new pen for him is sorted.
Some tortoises do hibernate, but only for up to 12 weeks.
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