Learn't by Experience

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We have learned from wide experience over many years and in diverse situations, and thus we will most likely be able to assist you to go away totally carefree knowing that all is under control in your home until you return.

We are both healthy non-smokers. We like our surroundings tidy inside and out and are most happy to care for pets and gardens - this is after all the very basics of our own life experiences!

We have always been economic with water, and electricity and that being inbred would also apply anywhere that we are entrusted to take care of a property.
We have cultivated wonderful gardens - vegetables, flowers, trees. Have always enjoyed the wild animals and birds that have been encouraged to visit us. We keep fit, take pride in our home and are essentially home bodies and that could very much be enhanced by caring for your pets that need and yearn for kind human company.
We have had experience with dogs, cats, alpacas, chooks, geese, ducks, guinea fowl, turkeys, honey bees, native bees, fish, goats, cattle, and water dragons!

We do not have much hands on experience with horses, cattle, etc and maybe consider it too late to try :) However, filling water troughs and feeding is quite ok.

We are a couple of 48 years having met, lived and worked in Sydney (Russel Lea) an accountant and a pharmacist, but then we threw caution to the winds and became orchardists, geese breeders and kelpie owners on our farm in Mullumbimby NSW, (where we built a home up a mountain). Later we moved to a Tallai, Gold Coast acreage with the dogs and had more geese and ducks on a large dam containing Yellow Bellies and Black Bass.
We then lived for 18 years on a property with a large garden and pool in Robina, Gold Coast where we kept chooks, pond fish and bred native bees.
We have now moved to Toowoomba and into a new home (with our bees) in an over 50's village. Here we have a tiny personal garden, ( although Keith has been gardening head in the community vegetable gardens) no pets and very little to maintain - and we do so miss it! Hence the travelling.

Home owners who engage us can be sure of regular updates while they are away and it is interesting that in over 50% of our sits we do not even meet the owners!

Keith has a police clearance. Read more...