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…
February 2024 – Fuerteventura
We often mention to each other that since becoming full-time pet and house sitters we haven't taken any 'proper' holidays ourselves! The reason for this is, as we are constantly…
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…
November 2023 – Amsterdam
London to Amsterdam Amsterdam is my favourite city in the world. I first went to visit as a teenager in 1980 and instantly fell in love with the place. Beautiful…
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.…
September 2023 – Brussels
London to Brussels We had been looking forward to the arrival of September since earlier in the year when we had managed to book a four-week house & pet sit…
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…
April 2023 – Sydney
During April, we had just one house sit that covered most of the month. We wanted to spend April in or around the Sydney region so were delighted to receive…
March 2023 – Goodbye New Zealand, Hello Australia!
When we arrived at Napier airport, after the events of our last week in New Zealand we were both surprised and delighted to see our flight to Australia was on…
February 2023 – More sightseeing and New Zealand gets hit by cyclone Gabrielle!
Our time in New Zealand was coming to an end and, sadly, February will be be our last month in this beautiful country. We arrived in Napier at the end…
January 2023 – Goodbye Christchurch, Hello Napier.
Happy New Year! January was our last full month in New Zealand and we had just one more house sit to do after Christchurch before we go to Australia in…