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Preferred locations
Sunshine Coast, Bundaberg & Wide Bay
Additional Info
References available, Police check available, Non smoker, Experience with Domestic Animals, Experience with Farm Animals
About
My husband and I operated a successful B&B for 22 years, until April 2017 when we sold the business. We have recently sold the business and entered the next exciting chapter in our lives! Prior to our B&B life, I worked as a Secretary/Personal Assistant and Frank spent most of his life working on the technical side of Telecom Australia (now Telstra). I have returned to part-time office work, mainly to keep myself busy and to help pay for short breaks away!
We have been married since 1996. We are easy going people and make friends easily. We are physically fit, non-smokers and we both hold unblemished drivers licenses.
Over the years, we've done the "travelling-all-over-the-countryside" holiday, but we really like the idea of spending quality time in a small village or town as opposed to the "try-to-fit-everything-in" visit!
We have family in Oxford in the UK (and 2 lovely little grandchildren) who we usually try to visit each year and my father lives in Hervey Bay Queensland. We like to experience things "as a local". You never get a real feel for a place unless you can spend some quality time there; and that's what we enjoy. We've seen the places we want to see - and now we just want to enjoy them.
We would be more than happy with a short-term assignment/s. Ideally we would like to be considered for a 2-3 week assignment, but would also consider a shorter house-sit. Certainly if we were in the area, we wouldn't mind a 3-4 day housesit if it helps out. Lots of house-sitters prefer long sits, but short sits are fine with us, given our situation.
In 2012, we completed a 15 day house-sit in Callander (Scotland). In 2013, we did a 14 day house-sit in Bath and a 6 day house-sit in Aberdeenshire. We were later invited back to Callander in 2014 to our first house sit, where we happily obliged. We have also completed several housesits in Queeland - Noosa and Hervey Bay areas.
I also have a current police check, a Working With Children check and currently employed at our local medical centre on a part-time basis.