Per's Swellendam Diary

Hello everybody, it's me, Per, the little cat that runs The Hideaway in Swellendam on the Garden Route in the Western Cape of South Africa.  My staff have been so busy creating the new gardens at The Hideaway that I haven't been able to get near the computer for ages to write a blog!  I managed to slip into the office today when it was all quiet to tell you about the huge additional gardens that the staff are making.  They have built a huge new swimming pool called an Ecopool, whatever that is, I don't know, but it doesn't use any chemicals to make the water clean and has lots of plants around the edges.  Reeally beeeautiful!  I dipped a paw into the water the other day, and I'm not much of a one for water as you know, but it felt so soft on my fur.  Lovely!  There are lovely flowers too and an orchard, a stream and olive trees and a new pool pavilion with fabulous views of the mountains.  The staff say they are going to serve breakfast there in the summer.  Oh oh!  Got to go, the staff are coming back and I will have to give up the computer!  See you all soon, I'm  off for a purrfect catnap in the new garden.