A few bits to catch up with from the last couple of weeks, as we continue to travel around the country house sitting and exploring. Over the last week I have returned to Over Wallop and a sit that I undertook at the start of September. The villages of Wallop are charming locations, with good…

A trip to Cornwall for work is required, so I stay in the usual pub The Sportsman’s at Menheniot, and catch up with a few friends. Leaving today to get to East Grinstead for the next house sit in Forest Row. I decide to take the coast road along the A35 and with the journey…

London calling, and we head into London Victoria for a short walk to the V&A, Annabel wants to visit the Cartier exhibition, before we catch up with a friend for her birthday celebrations. We get to the V&A to be first in the queue and spend a hour and half wondering around the collection. I…

Saturday 23rd August and we’ve been driving, (including a few curses at the middle lane hoggers), to eventually arrive at our relaxing holiday let, which is a gift from one of our wedding guests. Situated in the charming hamlet of Rezare our location is right in the middle of the rural Cornish countryside with the…

Well the two weeks of our latest sit are almost up, which gives me a chance to update the blog, following a whirlwind few months, which has included a marriage, some fowl/foul play, trips up and down the country and some lovely dog and small holding sits. I’ll cover the recent sit in this blog,…

A short post for this one, but none the less it has been a good day with a drive across to St Andrews and then up the coast to the mouth of the river Tay and oddly enough, the port called Tayport. From Tayport we went along the road that hunged the south bank of…

Everyone says how tiring weddings are, but we didn’t notice it – until we got away after the big day. We woke up to a very slow breakfast and a chat with our hosts, before heading up the road towards Cawdor Castle. I think it was at this point the exhaustation of the past few…

A beautiful, manic, fun, friendly, relaxing, weekend comes to an end, with some panicked goodbye’s. Storm Floris is about to make landfall and an amber weather warning has come into place, which the press is dramatizing to the point where it is apparent the world is unlikely to survive until tomorrow. Trains in Scotland are…

We woke up in the Dunmuir Hotel feeling very relaxed and content after all the joy of yesterday. In complete contrast to yesterday morning, I enjoyed a full breakfast with a stomach that was in tune with my appetite. Today, Annabel and I had planned to host all of our wedding guests on Skateraw beach…

It’s true what they say, wedding days rush up on you. From the original proposal to the actual day, it’s cliche to say the last year has flown by; where has the time has gone?! I awake feeling a little/lot nervous, not helped by my bank card being put on hold, (unusual activity). I join…