Funsters Housesitting For Free Pitch? (1 Viewer)

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:smiley: What a good idea :smiley: We'd be really interested if it takes off. We're paying some friends, who house/dog sit for a living, to stay while we go to France this August for 2 weeks with family. This is a short trip away for us. Our motorhoming trips are getting longer and longer. We spend more time in it than at home these days :smiley:. So nice as it is to have neighbours and friends who help out, it would be great to be able to use a scheme like this. We always take the dogs with us (except in August) so it's just an eye on the house we'd like. So if the Isle of Wight is not too far and the idea takes root, we'll definitely be looking to take advantage of it. We'd also be up for a spot of housesitting ourselves as well :smiley:
 

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Back in the day of the old style forum we had a calendar for the rallies and meets, I wonder if we could have one for the house sitting offers and requests. Members who want sitters could populate the Calendar with their required dates, which would make it easy for those wanting to sit to see where and when they were needed. Any chance of this @Jim ?
 
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We like the idea of the Isle Of Wight sometime in the future @2spritelyislanders - think that might get a lot of offers :)
Some way of listing those that are interested & those that are offering housesitting would be good if Jim & the website facilities allow it. Would suggest that when an agreement is made that perhaps having a reserve sitter (with contact number) too may be good to avoid being let down in case life throws its usual curve balls?!

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Long shot but do we have any Funsters in Bath (ideally near Claverton Down) who might want house/driveway sitters this August? Our son is hoping to do a 2 week work placement at the University Of Bath but only being 16 he needs us around overnight so we either have to spend 6 hours a day driving or stay nearby in the motorhome.
PM me to discuss if you prefer :)
 

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Long shot but do we have any Funsters in Bath (ideally near Claverton Down) who might want house/driveway sitters this August? Our son is hoping to do a 2 week work placement at the University Of Bath but only being 16 he needs us around overnight so we either have to spend 6 hours a day driving or stay nearby in the motorhome.
PM me to discuss if you prefer :)
I hope someone in the Bath area comes up with the need for your availability Wombles. (y)

Cheers,

Jock.
 

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Oh alright then. We've booked our house/dog sitter for our hols courtesy of @CWH, thanks Chris and Wendy. Mind you they'll need to be here at least a week before we go for the induction. Now when did I last clean the fish pond and the sheds need re-felting, the block drive pressure washing and re-sanding and then there's the hedge and and . . . they didn't think they were coming for a holiday surely? (y)
 

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Brilliant I knew we would get a party venue sooner or later, a great ploy this house sitting lark! :cheers::beerchug::wine:

How many hook ups and can we have electric heaters running in the garden, we can do an all-nighter then.
 

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judgemental.......are you sorted yet???? maybe it could be split into shifts .....a week or so at a time..........just a thought.........good luck........
 
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What! where! who! :) Can I ever so humbly suggest to the powers that be can we have a chart please......

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CWH (Cornwall) & Bailey58 (Norfolk) are our first confirmed match (y)
Fantastic news from Jim that we now have a housesitting forum so all go for those that want to get involved now or in the future! :)

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judgemental.......are you sorted yet???? maybe it could be split into shifts .....a week or so at a time..........just a thought.........good luck........


No nothing yet....we are open to any offers and flexible on dates time etc....:D
 

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No nothing yet....we are open to any offers and flexible on dates time etc....:D
@Judgemental - Did you see the message from @Lottiethehymer in Broken Link Removed
"We have ben MH for 2 years now and work mostly in London its no problem for us to house sit with our MH as its a 2 year old hymer,[ London compliant ] so if anyone wants a London house sitter message us"​
 

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@Judgemental - Did you see the message from @Lottiethehymer in Broken Link Removed
"We have ben MH for 2 years now and work mostly in London its no problem for us to house sit with our MH as its a 2 year old hymer,[ London compliant ] so if anyone wants a London house sitter message us"​


Thanks for that! no never saw it....Son back from his travels but will have a look an get in touch for future reference. Although we do intend to move to south coast in the new year so should be a bit easier in the future

son back from his travels so that summer emergency now passed and we managed:)
 

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