My current house sit finds me in the sunny Hawkes Bay, on a big drystock property in the Puketapu district, which is about 10 minutes from Napier. The place runs sheep and Charolais cattle. There’re also a couple apple orchards on the place. It’s really nice here, with a nice big home and landscaped gardens….
House Sitting In Koputaroa – Second Visit
My third stay at Rongotea wrapped up on October 28th (with more visits penciled in for 2027), and from there I moved straight on to my current house sit, which finds me back in rural Koputaroa, which is located a few minutes’ drive north of Levin. This is my second visit to this property. I…
House Sitting In Rongotea – Third Visit
After finishing my housesit at Okere Falls I drove straight down to my current one, which sees me back in the Manawatu to look after a repeat property in Rongotea. This is my third invitation to stay here over the past twelve months and it’s quickly become a second home. I’ve been booked for another…
House Sitting At Okere Falls
My current house sit sees me in Okere Falls, which is located about 20kms north of Rotorua. It’s rather nice here. The house is perched on the crest of a hill amongst native bush, and it has a good view of Lake Rotoiti. My housemates consist firstly of Angus, who is a two-year-old Husky-Alsatian cross….
House Sitting In Cambridge
My four week stint in Palmerston North has been completed, and my current house sit finds me in suburban Cambridge for a brief stay to fill in a short gap before my next booking, which will see me in the Rotorua area for just over a fortnight, before I return to Rongotea once again for…
House Sitting In Palmerston North
I finished at Rongotea about a week ago now, and since then I’ve been house sitting in Palmerston North. It’s a nice cosy and compact home situated in a cul-de-sac, in one of the quieter parts of town. There seems to quite a few doggies in the street, but to be honest I very rarely…
House Sitting In Rongotea – Second Visit
I arrived in the Manawatu yesterday for my next sit in Rongotea. This is my second stay on this particular property. I was here for around 6 weeks last year while the homeowners went on river cruises through Portugal, Egypt, and India. My visit is a bit shorter this time round as the owners have…
Farm Sitting In Tokoroa
For nearly a week now I’ve been based about 6kms out of Tokoroa on a sizable lifestyle block. It used to be part of a working dairy farm. The old herringbone cow shed is still here and is apparently still operational. But this place is now used for raising dairy beef. There are two mobs…
House Sitting In Taumarunui
My current sit finds me on a lifestyle block located about twenty minutes north of Taumarunui. This is a new property for me. It’s really nice here. The house is very private. It’s nestled amongst a perimeter of trees, so it’s hidden from the road, but the house still gets plenty of sun. It’s a…
House Sitting In Ngakuru
My Te Awamutu house sit finally came to an end last week, and from there I moved straight onto the next (and current) property, which is about a 25-minute drive south of Rotorua, in a rural district called Ngakuru. I’ve been here a week and everything is going really well. It’s nice out here, so…