Thank you so much for your information! 

I feel so honoured to share my garden with such a magnificent creature! 

 Convolvulous hawk moth it is - confirmed when I looked it up!

My husband wasn't too sure see it had slept the night in his underpants on the line!

Beautiful! We are very lucky to share this city with other wonderful creatures. Hopefully a sign that nature is coping despite the way we treat it.

It look oks like a hawk moth. How lucky.

Hi I believe it is a convolvulous hawk moth. I can't put links I to this reply but look it up!

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Huge (  8 - 10 cm long) grey/black / white moth type insect found resting on our washing that has been out all day. It was so big Ithought it was a sleeping bat at first!

Would certainly freak me out if it landed on me - anybody have any idea what it is?  :D