February 2025 – Paphos & London
Sadly, our time in Cyprus was coming to an end. In February, we had three house sits booked. Our final one for this visit in Cyprus, and then two more…
October 2024 – Four more London sits!
We have booked to leave the UK in November (more on that later!), and are flying out of Gatwick Airport. Wanting to keep our travel to the airport as short…
September 2024 – An anniversary, and we squeeze in four more house sits!
September arrived and with it came an anniversary. Unbelievably, September the 4th 2024 marked four years since we gave up our permanent address. Who can forget our first attempt and…
August 2024 – Bromley, Beaconsfield & Surbiton
We love all pets but truth be told, dogs are a lot more work than cats. After caring for eight dogs in our last six house sits, we looked forward…
July 2024 – Brighton & Horsham
The BIG NEWS for this month is that Karyo has retired! The seed for Karyo to retire was first planted when we went to New Zealand and Australia at the…
June 2024 – East Wittering and London
Last month, Karyo's mum, Anastasia, arrived from her home in Greece for her annual visit. On this visit, we had arranged two house sits for her to share with us.…
May 2024 – Brighton, Birmingham, Manchester
We normally choose the destinations of our house sits fairly randomly. Not putting too much importance on where we are at the start, or end, of the month. However, May…
April 2024 – London & Winchester
Compared to last month when we did just one, five week sit in the sleepy town of Horley, April was a whirlwind of activity. We managed to squeeze in three…
March 2024 – Horley
Gatwick to Horley We have not had a permanent address now for almost three years. Generally, we have embraced this well and, so far, it has brought us very few…
January 2024 – Brighton & Hove
Happy 2024! We arrived in Brighton last month and were enjoying our stay. We have been doing one long, six-week house sit that has taken us well into January. That…
December 2023 – London & Brighton
Once again, as the dates of our house sit do not always fall neatly into calendar months, my monthly updates have gone slightly skew-whiff. To get back on track, following…
October 2023 – London and Manchester
Brussels to Gerrards Cross To help fund our travels we let our apartment in Manchester and our current tenant had given us notice that they wanted to leave in mid-October.…
August 2023 – Brighton
August 2023 in Brighton was a month of ups and downs. The ups included two lovely house sits, getting to look after some pets different than the usual cats and…
July 2023 – Manchester
After what had been a really hectic June. In contrast, July, with only one house sit, in a city we know well, that covered the whole month, was a very…
June 2023 – Goodbye England, Hello Scotland!
Goodbye England Hello Scotland We were well-rested after our week in London and ready to move on again. Next Stop, Scotland. June was to be our Scottish month. With three…
May 2023 – Goodbye Australia, Hello UK!
Goodbye Australia 😥 Hello UK 😀 Sadly, our New Zealand and Australian adventure was coming to an end. With just nineteen days allowance left on our visa, we just had…
September 2022 – Our final house sit in Brighton.
I can hardly believe that I am sitting here, writing our September update. This means that our four-month stay in Brighton is almost over! Me and Karyo at Brighton Marina…
August 2022 – Brighton
August 2022 - Brighton - Two house sits, Brighton Pride and A Happy birthday to me! Brighton Pier We completed two house sits during August. These were to be our…
July 2022 – Brighton
Midway through July we ended our first housesit in Brighton that we had started back in June, then, in the last two weeks of July managed to squeeze in two…
June 2022 – Barnsley and Brighton
A year off work, we don't mind if he does! June 2022 started with good news ! Karyo has been given the green light to take a year off work!…