November 2022 (from Issue 38 of House Sitting Magazine) Our life has changed somewhat over the past year. We’ve gone from full blown nomadic travellers to long term house sitters in Burgundy, France with French residency, and become owners of our own renovation project too.I guess it’s time to admit we are for the moment “settled”,

October 2021 (from Issue 37 of House Sitting Magazine) As you may know, Vanessa and I chose to settle for a while at the start of winter last year. Well… when I say “chose”, what I really mean is we got stuck in France as the country went into a strict lockdown at the start of

July 2021 (from Issue 36 of House Sitting Magazine) How many house sits have you done in the last three months?I think we’ve set a new personal record… for the lowest number of sits we’ve done over such a period since we started full-time house sitting at the end of 2015.In the past 3 months we’ve

April 2021 (from Issue 35 of House Sitting Magazine) Over the past months Vanessa and I have enjoyed living in a smaller world than we’ve been used to over the past 7 years or so.We’ve now been in France for six months, and have spent time travelling in our campervan, as well as fitting in some

January 2021 (from Issue 34 of House Sitting Magazine) Happy New Year.Welcome to the first issue of House Sitting Magazine for 2021.Are you, like us, hopeful for a better year ahead than last year turned out to be? I imagine, like most, you’ll be glad to see the back of 2020?I think it was a pretty

October 2020 (from Issue 33 of House Sitting Magazine) I’m sure you’ve had a more challenging year than you ever imagined lay ahead as you celebrated New Years’ Eve 2019, and the calendar changed to 2020.What changed for you this year?What challenges have you faced?What difficult choices have you had to make?As we’ve mentioned before, our

July 2020 (from Issue 32 of House Sitting Magazine) Well, the last few months have certainly been challenging for most of us, haven’t they?And of course, house sitting was hit pretty hard when lockdowns and travel restrictions came in to force around the world.Vanessa and I had both of our April and May United States house

April 2020 (from Issue 31 of House Sitting Magazine) Two months ago, on 15th Feb 2020, we published issue 30 of House Sitting Magazine, and published our previous blog post here on Long Term House Sitters, taken from the intro to the magazine. Who could have predicted our world would have changed so much since then?Vanessa and I suspected

February 2020 (from Issue 30 of House Sitting Magazine) The Sun (British newspaper) ran a story branding the comic ‘The Seven Penny Nightmare’.Over the long hot summer of 1976 the British press whipped themselves up into an outraged fury over the UK teenage boys’ comic “Action”. My friends and I bought a copy every Saturday… price 7 pence.The comic

December 2019 We were invited to arrive at our current house sit in Yorkshire the night before our home owners departed for New Zealand. It’s nice to have plenty of time for a thorough handover, but it’s also lovely to be invited for a cozy dinner. We had plenty of time to chat with our hosts,

October 2019 Well it finally happened, the first ever House & Pet Sitting Conference came into being over a gloriously warm and sunny September weekend, on the outskirts of Swindon in the UK. Both newcomers and seasoned sitters converged to listen to over 20 experienced house sitting travelers talk about the house sitting lifestyle. Was it a

August 2019 Over the past year we’ve done many more repeat sits than we ever have before. We’ve been trying to keep on track with our “52 house sits in 52 weeks” challenge, so we’ve been doing lots of shorter sits, many just over a weekend. Some of our home owners seem to take these short