August Editors Letter
HAPPY SPRING DAY HOGSBACK!! What a surprisingly busy August. Usually the wind is the hardest worker during a Hogsback August. This month brought us some real snow, a woman’s day…
HOGSBACK LOCAL DISCOVERS GOLD!
Forget the fairies, say no more about snow. Hogsback may have been sitting on a gold mine all along. Just when we thought Hogsback had run out of ways to…
Hogsback’s Happening
Tiny Humans, Big Support A huge thank you to the Hogsback community for turning out in numbers for the Mud and Moss Montessori Pre-School opening. The support for our little…
SatireHogsback Whines
SUGGESTIVE SPLUMA
RMM SOLVES LEGALITY: ‘If You Ignore SPLUMA Hard Enough, It Ceases to Exist’ In a historic breakthrough for municipal administration, Raymond Mhlaba Municipality has unveiled a revolutionary legal framework for…
From the Forest Floor
Lately I’ve noticed many people bring up the term “forest bathing” again… Now while no one will judge you if your thoughts went straight to a certain magical cliff bath…
Echoes and Legends – The Last Seed
The Last Seed My second-oldest son’s favourite book at the moment is The Lorax by Dr Seuss. It’s a story about the Truffula Tree, how it is destroyed by greedy…
Echoes and Legends
Honorary Local…ZukoThe Courier Who Became Part of Hogsback Ask around Hogsback about the local courier driver and chances are you will get a smile, a nod of recognition, or a…
In the Air: Cape Parrot Project
Finding the Forest’s Last Parrots: Exploration and the Cape Parrot Project Before the Wild Bird Trust could conserve the Cape Parrot, it had to find it. That is easy to…
Hogsback Horror-Scopes
AUGUST … The Snow Has Happened. Now What? ARIES – July proved you right about the snow, and you’ve been insufferable ever since. August brings the sudden realisation that one…
Mammal Memoirs
Every Hogsback animal deserves care. It all started with Wayne Kent… It was said that Hogsback’s animals understood Wayne best. This is a testament to the man he was. Upon…