Haven on earth
It’s not at all difficult to come up with a title for the rather unusual fairy tale that is unfolding at Nicola Vernon’s Greyton Farm Animal Sanctuary: The Showgirl and the Gentle Sow. Or perhaps The Bond Girl and the Injured Calf. Or something along the lines of The Good Fairy and the Pigs.
The basic elements of this fairy tale are all there: the adventurous British girl who grew up in Singapore and later worked in Paris as a dancer and as an extra in the Bond movie Moonraker; the eccentric businessman who owns a castle in the English countryside where he cares for rescued farm animals… There is a love story, a death, the need to honour someone’s memory. And then, finally, a very happy ending for the animals, who are, after all, the lead characters in this story.
THE SANCTUARY can be found on the farm Tabularasa, 7 km outside Greyton. Nicola (better known as Nicky, the adventurous girl mentioned above) bought the 40 ha property in 2005.
She and her husband at the time, Dennis (the eccentric businessman), had visited
