Gearing up for Christmas!

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Age
56 - 64 years
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Occupation
Biologist
Gender
Female
Status
Single female
Term
7 - 21 Days, 3 - 6 Weeks

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Hello everyone!                                        
I am at your disposal to look after your home, garden and animals of various kinds over the Christmas holidays and I have references from all my previous 8 house-sits, a few of which I've posted in the relevant place on the site. 

It's been a while since I last house-sat for anyone as I've been pre-occupied with settling in to and working on my cottage near Dumfries, Scotland.    But I tired of the tedium of trying to find fitters and joiners etc and set off again in April in my campervan for some adventures on the Continent.  For a long time I'd been meaning to tour around Sicily and I can thoroughly recommend the ferry route from Toulon to Trapani.   The Wimbledon Queue has been an annual event for me some years now and this year was no exception and I even got a resale ticket to the Final - tragically it was the wrong result though. 

So, I first started house-sitting in the winter of and spent nearly 3 months in the Apuane Alps in Tuscany which was lovely and I much enjoyed some fine days out in the mountains.   Later I volunteered in a Retreat Centre in Dorset in August, helping out in their walled organic garden and assisting with preparations for their Annual Summer Festival where much happy music and new friendships were enjoyed.  In the winter of   I went to France,  greatly enjoying travelling through that lovely country  where I looked after a succession of cats,  several dogs and 6 chickens.   

I returned to the UK to sit for a couple and their 3 cats in Shropshire during February of 2017, and I was invited to return there for another week in March.  In April  I was in Edinburgh for a week taking care of 5 chickens and a lovely cat for a family on holiday.  That all passed very well too.  This was followed by a fabulous walking tour of Argyll and the Isles of Jura and Islay before returning to my former home north of  Inverness for the summer to prepare it for sale. This accomplished,  I'm now busy with my cottage and planning my garden in the milder climes of  Dumfries & Galloway.  My last house-sit in 2017 was near Nottingham in October where once again I was dog-sitting.    Last year I was too tied up at home to travel but I did sit for a couple and their cats in Shotts, nr Edinburgh for a couple of weeks in February and in October I sat for a couple of dogs near Loch Lomond as I needed to see some hills and and the couple were pretty desperate.

That was  my 9th house-sit and I am very much enjoying all these experiences. I,ve looked after all sorts of pets and am particularly fond of cats, but I'm always up for a walk so can look after a dog-  who will need to be properly trained and responsive.  

I am a biologist by former profession and worked in Aquaculture for many years and then in Plant Science. I am a keen walker and love to be near mountains and woods. I also love gardening and several years ago spent some time WWOOFing (World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) in southern Spain and all over Britain. This allowed me to enjoy looking after sheep and hens, the odd goat a little bit of work with cows and lots of chickens.  Mainly I helped people establish and maintain their vegetable gardens and polytunnels, or assisted in planting, sowing, harvesting and running the Veggie Box schemes on commercial organic farms. One farm specialised in medicinal herbs and that is my particular interest. At home on the Cromarty Firth I cultivated my own 'physic garden' and enjoyed making my own medicinals.  While living and working in northern Scotland, I undertook a Permaculture Course and I am particularly inclined towards pursuing the ethics and principles of Permaculture, which encourages nurturing the land and those that live upon it for the benefit of all living creatures and the heritage of future generations.

I am fit and healthy and having lived on my own for years, I am quite competent and resourceful with respect to general house-keeping, maintenance or suprises and you can rest assured your property will be in good hands. You will return to find everything as you left it and your pets well taken care of.

I hope to hear from you soon and look forward to some more lovely experiences travelling and house-sitting.   

Laura

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