Noises in the night.
So...Deranie and Phoebe are here with us for a few days as they stop off on their trip up to The Great Barrier Reef.Will and I are camping out in the tent, in the shed, while they are here and last night it got down to -4 degrees. I went to bed extremely tired and thought I was in for a good night's sleep but no.....Firstly, there was the eerie rasping of one-eyed possums in the darkness then just after midnight Yudhishthira started crowing.I must have been dozing finally because I was woken by a car revving its engine at 1.00 am. It sounded fairly close by and I woke Will. It sounded as if someone was stuck and trying to get their car out of a ditch or something. I thought it sounded like someone on our drive up to the house but Will wasn't convinced.Eventually we heard the car reversing for a long while and then heard it roar off.Sure enough, when Will came back from turning the cheese he made yesterday he said that there were tracks halfway up our drive where someone had tried to turn their car around.It is slightly disturbing that someone would head up our drive when it really does not look like a continuation of Garth Lane and at 1.00 am in the morning. Surely they were up to no good. We need to get a gate and possibly a Direwolf quick!After they had gone I tried to get to sleep again but the cockerel started crowing again. I decided to count how many times it crowed before it stopped....I counted 13 crows. It didn't put me at ease.