<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-586177220127242741</id><updated>2011-12-29T01:57:36.976-08:00</updated><category term='Southern Suburbs'/><category term='South Africa'/><category term='community market'/><category term='False Bay'/><category term='Village'/><category term='KRRA'/><category term='Ringed otter died'/><category term='dead body of otter found in Kommetjie'/><category term='Cape Town'/><category term='Terns'/><category term='ZA'/><category term='Ocean View'/><category term='Kommetjie'/><title type='text'>Kommetjie Village News</title><subtitle type='html'>Kommetjie is a scenic small village on the Atlantic Seaboard near Cape Town.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kommetjie-village-news.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/586177220127242741/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kommetjie-village-news.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Sonja</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06333991312940927808</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UHyzTuWyfQo/SvwNVrH12tI/AAAAAAAACKY/qc_PD9M6hEE/S220/Sonja_Wilker_.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>3</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-586177220127242741.post-1293964201876499472</id><published>2011-12-29T01:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-29T01:57:37.042-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dead body of otter found in Kommetjie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ringed otter died'/><title type='text'>Dead otter found in Kommetjie</title><content type='html'>Here the otter was still alive and well in October 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td width="50%"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l1OApHpvg_8/Tvw0aUCwr0I/AAAAAAAADrU/pMlN2XiGeVc/s1600/IMG_8286.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="217" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l1OApHpvg_8/Tvw0aUCwr0I/AAAAAAAADrU/pMlN2XiGeVc/s320/IMG_8286.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="50%"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cqIFR6kg2TQ/Tvw0gAYFh8I/AAAAAAAADrc/Ua6oDQRqKxY/s1600/IMG_8287.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="192" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cqIFR6kg2TQ/Tvw0gAYFh8I/AAAAAAAADrc/Ua6oDQRqKxY/s320/IMG_8287.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Here only the skeleton remains.&amp;nbsp; We wondered whether it was killed at sea, or on shore by dogs or something else. It was ringed.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Its number 10611.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td width="50%"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eCqmKVLFxHU/Tvw1MwKocaI/AAAAAAAADro/XWH_2RgDC1A/s1600/IMG_0455.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eCqmKVLFxHU/Tvw1MwKocaI/AAAAAAAADro/XWH_2RgDC1A/s320/IMG_0455.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td width="50%"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jdLYfGhYhdU/Tvw1XgyLSYI/AAAAAAAADrw/rJI8UF5sFvg/s1600/IMG_0458.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jdLYfGhYhdU/Tvw1XgyLSYI/AAAAAAAADrw/rJI8UF5sFvg/s320/IMG_0458.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://massage-kommetjie.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Travelling Massage therapist in Kommetjie&lt;/a&gt;. I will come to you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sonies-services.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Other Services I provide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://hodgepodgeservices.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Hodgies Hodgepodge of Services&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/586177220127242741-1293964201876499472?l=kommetjie-village-news.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kommetjie-village-news.blogspot.com/feeds/1293964201876499472/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://kommetjie-village-news.blogspot.com/2011/12/dead-otter-found-in-kommetjie.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/586177220127242741/posts/default/1293964201876499472'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/586177220127242741/posts/default/1293964201876499472'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kommetjie-village-news.blogspot.com/2011/12/dead-otter-found-in-kommetjie.html' title='Dead otter found in Kommetjie'/><author><name>Sonja</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06333991312940927808</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UHyzTuWyfQo/SvwNVrH12tI/AAAAAAAACKY/qc_PD9M6hEE/S220/Sonja_Wilker_.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l1OApHpvg_8/Tvw0aUCwr0I/AAAAAAAADrU/pMlN2XiGeVc/s72-c/IMG_8286.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-586177220127242741.post-7169255785731828769</id><published>2010-11-17T06:55:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-17T07:26:16.936-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Village'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kommetjie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ZA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Southern Suburbs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cape Town'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='South Africa'/><title type='text'>The terns are flocking</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UHyzTuWyfQo/TOPtbja3QeI/AAAAAAAADJs/Lin6_MzpDC8/s1600/IMG_6226.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UHyzTuWyfQo/TOPtbja3QeI/AAAAAAAADJs/Lin6_MzpDC8/s320/IMG_6226.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Good news: the terns are flocking&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has been a long time since I saw so many birds here.  The fish must be returning.  It is a great cycle.  The more fish, the more birds, the more bird guano, the more fish, and so on...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UHyzTuWyfQo/TOPtk8FND_I/AAAAAAAADJw/RLCiWbs7RSs/s1600/IMG_6224.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UHyzTuWyfQo/TOPtk8FND_I/AAAAAAAADJw/RLCiWbs7RSs/s320/IMG_6224.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/586177220127242741-7169255785731828769?l=kommetjie-village-news.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kommetjie-village-news.blogspot.com/feeds/7169255785731828769/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://kommetjie-village-news.blogspot.com/2010/11/terns-are-flocking.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/586177220127242741/posts/default/7169255785731828769'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/586177220127242741/posts/default/7169255785731828769'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kommetjie-village-news.blogspot.com/2010/11/terns-are-flocking.html' title='The terns are flocking'/><author><name>Sonja</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06333991312940927808</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UHyzTuWyfQo/SvwNVrH12tI/AAAAAAAACKY/qc_PD9M6hEE/S220/Sonja_Wilker_.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UHyzTuWyfQo/TOPtbja3QeI/AAAAAAAADJs/Lin6_MzpDC8/s72-c/IMG_6226.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-586177220127242741.post-1724867914580103736</id><published>2009-09-29T11:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-01T06:18:40.305-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Village'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kommetjie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ZA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Southern Suburbs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='KRRA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cape Town'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ocean View'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='community market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='South Africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='False Bay'/><title type='text'>Kommetjie Kom-unity market</title><content type='html'>&lt;h2&gt;Kommetjie community market a great success&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The market was organised by 3 volunteer members of the KRRA (Kommetjie Residents and Ratepayers Association); Kirk, owner of the business property, Sonja Wilker, Life and Business Coach, and Pepita Mace of Pam Golding Properties. The idea was to provide a space and opportunity for Kommetjie and our neighbour Ocean View to participate in a joint venture to the benefit of all. Proceeds went to the Ocean View Neighbourhood Development Forum, for their Information Centre.&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UHyzTuWyfQo/SsSlxEwsNWI/AAAAAAAACGw/hDZSIhz9Zo8/s1600-h/IMG_2152.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 134px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387613316752094562" border="0" alt="Kommetjie Community Market" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UHyzTuWyfQo/SsSlxEwsNWI/AAAAAAAACGw/hDZSIhz9Zo8/s200/IMG_2152.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had 96 stalls, with a great variety of goods. There were enough things to tittilate the tastebuds; food, cakes, sweets, boerewors rolls, samoosas, "koesisters" and various other nibbly things as well as cooldrinks, and of course the pubs did a roaring trade during the rugby matches. It was like a mass exodus, all the "manne" went to cheer for their team. Don't ask me who was playing, I haven't got a clue, and even if I knew it wouldn't make me any the wiser.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To get back to the stalls. There were clothes stalls, new and second hand, for ladies, gents, kids, toddlers and babies. Some really funky stuff that I haven't seen before. There was a jumping castle for the kids, games, CDs, DVDs, art, craft of various kinds, compost worms, teddybears, leather purses, you name it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We even had an NSRI display with two boats. Cape Medical response also attended.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had some great compliments after the fact and most stall holders indicated they would be interested to do this again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reason we called it &lt;strong&gt;Kom&lt;/strong&gt;-&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Unity&lt;/em&gt; Market&lt;/strong&gt; is that phonetically this sounds like 'community' which is what we are trying to create. It is also a play on words, 'Kom' the first three letters of Kommetjie (which in Afrikaans means basin, bowl, cup, as in container) then '&lt;em&gt;unity'&lt;/em&gt; because we did it with, and for, Ocean View, our closest neighbour suburb. &lt;p&gt;Our next market will be during the festive season. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/sonja.wilker/KomUnityMarketAug2009"&gt;Click here to view my web album with photos of the Kommetjie Community Market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UHyzTuWyfQo/SsSlx63cNTI/AAAAAAAACHA/OCFezTPwzA8/s1600-h/IMG_2108.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 134px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387613331275920690" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UHyzTuWyfQo/SsSlx63cNTI/AAAAAAAACHA/OCFezTPwzA8/s200/IMG_2108.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Some farmyard animals&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UHyzTuWyfQo/SsSlxUsgOQI/AAAAAAAACG4/3wY1KBSr77o/s1600-h/IMG_2109.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 134px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387613321029499138" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UHyzTuWyfQo/SsSlxUsgOQI/AAAAAAAACG4/3wY1KBSr77o/s200/IMG_2109.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UHyzTuWyfQo/SsSlyTNeeyI/AAAAAAAACHI/VM311opHGWA/s1600-h/IMG_2081.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 134px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387613337810795298" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UHyzTuWyfQo/SsSlyTNeeyI/AAAAAAAACHI/VM311opHGWA/s200/IMG_2081.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;guys helping to keep the place clean. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/586177220127242741-1724867914580103736?l=kommetjie-village-news.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kommetjie-village-news.blogspot.com/feeds/1724867914580103736/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://kommetjie-village-news.blogspot.com/2009/09/kommetjie-kom-unity-market.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/586177220127242741/posts/default/1724867914580103736'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/586177220127242741/posts/default/1724867914580103736'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kommetjie-village-news.blogspot.com/2009/09/kommetjie-kom-unity-market.html' title='Kommetjie Kom-unity market'/><author><name>Sonja</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06333991312940927808</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UHyzTuWyfQo/SvwNVrH12tI/AAAAAAAACKY/qc_PD9M6hEE/S220/Sonja_Wilker_.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UHyzTuWyfQo/SsSlxEwsNWI/AAAAAAAACGw/hDZSIhz9Zo8/s72-c/IMG_2152.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
