Brookton, Western Australia

About this house sitting position in Brookton

Sorry if you have been contacted recently - BUT

We had a couple booked from 22nd Oct – to the end of Jan.,2015 but they have had to pull out due to unexpected medical problems – leaving us with very short notice to find a replacement.

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We are looking for help asap through to the end of January 2015.
This is not, normally a paid position, and your own vehicle/transport is essential
Accommodation is a granny flat with bathroom and toilet, a new fridge and stove,
R.C. Air Con and a washing machine. about 100 metres from the main house
- a van can be pulled alongside.
The menagerie consists of:
An emu, caged birds, various poultry, 2 dogs, 1 cat, 2 kangaroos,
Sometimes there are orphaned lambs too but usually from mid-March on. – none right now.
Once in the swing of it, this takes about an hour morning and night.
We live 120 mile east of Perth on a wheat and sheep farm which borders
the Yenyenning Lakes system. We are 20 mile from Brookton - as for
fruit and veggies, there is an IGA store, a butcher and a deli in town. I go to town once a week
and can get an order for you or you can come with me - I volunteer at the local
school and am usually away for around 4 hours.
We have a bountiful Lemon tree, some home grown Silver beet, Rhubarb and
Celery , parsley, lettuce – Chives - a variety of herbs, preparing beds now for summer vegies, melons etc.,.
I am always adding to this to
increase the amount and variety of plants grown.
There are several interesting "touristy" spots to visit, such as: Wave Rock,
about 2 and half hours East of us and on the way there, just before the town
of Corrigin, is the "Dog Cemetery", a rather unique idea for people to put
there precious pets to rest and quite popular.
There used to be an Emu and an Alpaca farm people could visit, in that
are too, but I am not sure if it is still open to the public.
Pingelly, about a 40 minute drive South of, us has an observatory for gazing
at the stars.
Dryandra is between Pingelly and Narrogin and has a native animal refuge
and breeding programme going.
York is an historic town ship, one of the first settled out of the Perth area in
the early days - it has a motor museum and special market days - lots of
very old buildings.
Northam (to the North of us) and Narrogin to the South are both just over an
hour drive and are much bigger centres.
About a half hour North of our farm is County Peak from which you can have
a 360 degree view of the surrounding farm lands and lakes - very pretty. We
also have a small lake on our property stocked with bream - nice eating!!!

>> Kind regards - Glennis Mills.

Glennis Mills
RMB 615, Brookton WA 6306 Read more...