I visited some other black listed sites <.< >.> and discovered the pattern, then dug around in the router settings to see what had changed. Disabling parental controls sorted it and I can now see the squirrel/chipmunk/unidentified rodent.

Lesson learned: just use a VPN.

> I visited some other black listed sites <.< >.>

Is that an ASCII representation of what I think it is? (a well known .cx site)

It was shifty eyes. But good imagination skills +1

I saw it as just a 'shifty-eyes' emoticon, but then again I don't know of said .cx-site so I maybe missing it.

aaisp - your life just became simpler.