Great to see that my two hospitality clients in the village are getting the best reviews of a notorious famous travel journalist (writing and blogging under the alias ‘Reismier’ which means ‘Travel Ant’).

Congratulations to YUM Eat Cafe and Stanford Harvest. We are all proud #SAStanfordian. For both clients I market and manage diverse social media accounts in which a WordPress blog, FB-page and Twitter play a central role.

Theunis of Landmeterskop one day found what he thought were three orphaned Egyptian goslings in the veld. He brought them home and placed them with our new batch of runner ducklings. Two of them died within a couple of days, and only one survived and thrived, and also soon showed her true colours. She was indeed a Spur-winged Goose, scientifically known as Plectropterus gambensis!

For almost a year she lived with the other geese and ducks, until about ten days ago when she was reported missing… We have looked everywhere but cannot find her. We can only hope that she is well and on a grown-up adventure and that she will eventually return, as this species is partially migratory, making seasonal movements of several hundred kilometres. They normally breed during or near the end of the wet season in solitary pairs.

This brought to mind the story we once read about Peggy, the famous Spur-winged Goose of Somerset West, as told and photographed…