Great news for Smithfield and the Eastern Cape: the defunct Tiffindel ski resort has been sold (on auction) to new owners who hope to have the place running and taking guests by next winter. Tiffindel used to offer South Africans …Share this:Click to share on...
… in the same week as BirdLife SA announces new project to track birds via satellite So excited! My friend Crystelle Wilson and I were atlasing a pentad outside Smithfield earlier today when we spotted a Secretarybird far off to …Share this:Click to share on...
You’d think that the walls of a house would protect water pipes against even heavy frost. Not so! We’ve had years when winter temperatures went down to -13C; last week’s frost was not nearly so heavy, but the damage has …Share this:Click to share on Twitter...
Returning festival fundi, Duncan Hodge, stayed over with us last night; Smithfield is the ideal distance to break a journey from Grahamstown to Gauteng. This time he arrived without his Dalmatian, Daisy, so my dogs were a little disappointed. He …Share...
Post box – platteland style We don’t have street deliveries in Smithfield, so the post office is a popular place. When I arrived to clear my post last week I noticed this red box, swinging open, with a collection of …Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens...
