A porcupine (picture courtesy of wikipedia).
Usual story, went to the loo at some really early hour of the morning, got into bed and the noises started. Peaked through a gap in the curtain, nothing. Got back into bed, hubby kind of came to, I mention the monster’s back, he grunts and goes back to sleep again. Heard another grunt, only this time it wasn’t hubby – peered through the curtain again, wiped the dew off the window, there goes Spikey on his next pitstop (well he has to have a name, can’t keep calling him Monster). They almost make a barking kind of noise, something between a grunt and a bark, he obviously figured there wasn’t much to be had under the house and waddled off. Noisy blighter. Suffice to say I didn’t get much sleep after that.
As an aside, saw a banner at the bottom of Ou Kaapse Weg – “I love you Helene” – wonder what he did wrong :)