THERE'S A GOOSE ON THE LOOSE There is an old nursery rhyme that my English friends taught me. It goes: Goosey Goosey Gander Where do you wander? Upstairs and Downstairs And in my Lady's Chamber Like most nursery rhymes it doesn’t make a lot of sense to me and its real meaning is not very clear. Mother Goose But what is clear is that we have a big grey goose as a neighbour, and while she doesn't actually visit our 'chambers' she does wander around a lot. I assuming this goose is actually not a Gander and is a 'she'. There used to be three of them that would hang around in a sort of 'Goosey-Gang' and one of them was much, much larger and was fond of flapping his huge wings, arching his neck and honking loudly to scare off the local dogs (and the occasional drunken idiot on his way home from 'Bia Hoi' who tried to pat them). I always preseumed this protective behaviour was carried out by the male of the gang -the Gande...