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Laura W

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Vancouver, British Columbia
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We are a couple originally from the UK who have been together for 11 years. We are both in our early 30’s and have a range of experience house sitting and homestays in the UK and New Zealand. A little bit about ourselves: We both work remotely and have been travelling for the past few years. We spend 6 months of the year in Vancouver where Laura's sister, husband and niece live in Kitsilano. The other half of the year we tend to travel, last year we spent it on South America and this year in France. House sits have allowed us the chance to stay still and enjoy being in a home and looking after animals, and properly explore and experience new areas. This we hugely appreciate We love to hike and explore new places and cultures. We both love to cook. Joe: I work remotely for a digital marketing agency. I really enjoy photography, both exploring to find interesting photos and using Photoshop. My main passion is making music which I do digitally. I also spend time wood whittling. Laura: I am a nutritionist, and am currently studying a degree part time to make this an international qualification. My main interest is gardening, i had a vegetable garden for 4 years at home where i grew vegetables and herbs and have just started learning about growing flowers. I enjoy crafts whether is doing up clothing, wood whittling or making felt! House sitting/home stay experience: - Regular house sitting on a farm in Hampshire. Responsibilities involved looking after pigs, sheep and chickens. Feeding in the mornings and evenings, collecting eggs. Cleaning and general maintenance of the farm house. - Dog sitting in Wiltshire - looking after a labradoodle feeding and taking for 3 walks a day and looking after their garden (including a vegetable garden). This position was held regularly over a number of years for a family. - Home stay and house sitting on a large farm in New Zealand. Tasks involved looking after calves and cattle - including milking in the mornings, and general tasks around farm - building maintenance, brake fencing, feeding animals. - Home stay in New Zealand for family who have a avery with rare birds. This involved looking after parrots (a range of types) and exotic birds, ducks, canaries and quails. - Personal experience with animals - we have both had dogs and cats since we were young. Joe has had pigs and chickens since a child. - We are both innovative, creative and handy people. We have turned a van into a camper to travel, which involved adding an inverted and electricity, building shelving units and a bed and making curtains. Having rented houses for 8 years we have been very responsible and taken care of general maintenance. We have also worked on many project at home/ work away (woofing) that involved building and maintenance.
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Responsibilities include:
Mail collection
Pet feeding
Plant care
Snow clearing

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