Help create my dream home and garden near Maurs, Auvergne, France

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  Description

  Looking for urgent help:
  
  On 2 mai I have an operation on my finger in my right hand( I am right handed). My oldest daughter is there to help the first night but after that they have to leave. So I could use some help with the "normal" things from the 3th mai for a week or two. After two weeks I think I can do the household on my own again.
  
  After this periode I like to have some help with the garden and the fences around the house and some little work in the house.
  
  Cause I live on the campagne a car is necessairy. I live now in a trainhouse(6 trains, small ones, a day) on top of a hill with a marvellous view and after the trains passed by in the morning and evening very quiet(4 cars a day pass max). You can walk miles through the fields from where I live.
  
  Would be great if some one is able to come and help us (two dogs, three cats and me) and be good company for a while.
  
  I am a single women of 68 years young.
  I have two grown up daughters(39 and 41), three grandsons(8,4 and 2 year old) and one granddaughter(6) who all live in the Netherlands.
  
  I used to work with handicapped people(fysical and/or mentally handicapped).
  I also gave massages(intuïtief, energetisch, classic) for 40 years.
  I have vegetable gardens since 45 years.
  I know a lot about plants and birds.
  
  Now I live in France since 13 years where I have bought a little house on a hill after I sold my old(bigger) house.
  I have a wood stove and there is put/well water on the terrain.
  I love gardening, herbs, nature, animals and people.
  I have one dog, half beauceron-sheperd of 12 year, called Luca. I adopted a little dog from the Ukraine who has three legs and is about 3 years, called Lapa.
  I have one cat Caramel (4 years). I have two white cats, Lola and Lalo, now 3 years old.
  
  I am looking for trustfull, handy, nice people who can help me with the work in the garden.
  I started a big vegetable garden again and I need some new fences and some good stairs in the gardens.
  I have a wood stove.
  There is for now a room in the house where you can stay, or in a tent near the river, a very private beautifull space,I hope to place a original mongolian yurt on one of the plateau's for rent soon.
  
  I love to cook good healthy food, bake cakes and apple pies. I am not a vegetarian but my two daughters are and I have been a vegetarian too. So to prepare good vegetarian meals is no problem.
  
  I like to hear from you,
  
  Greetings Aletta

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Language practice

  Help with Eco Projects

  Elderly Companionship

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Animal Care

  Farmstay help

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance

  Help with Computers/ Internet
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  They could learn French from the french, permaculture and gardening, living off grid, building, cooking, massage among other things from me.

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  Help

  Update februari 2025
  Since 1 december I live in my new house, which is really great. Now there is a variety of tasks in the garden, making a vegetable garden, fixing some Fences, making some stairs to make the gardens more easy acceseble.
  
  For all these things help would be great!
  
  Update october 2024, sold my old house living in a chalet near friends now, waiting to be able to move in the new house, which is due round the beginning of Novembre , in the Cantal near Maurs.
  
  Update mai 2024, I have sold my house and desperately need some help in juli and august with garden and relocation 600 km more to the north!
  
  Update march 2024
  This year I want to renovate my second house, now a ruin. 6 x 7 meters.
  
  Update march 2022
  For now all the things from the update from 2020 are finshed. This year I planned to make a good kitchen, finish some lime work in the attic, finish some electric stuff, do some painting, building a big terras on the hill with outside kitchen
  that are the wishes for this year.
  
  Update february 2020,
  We did a lot in the house, for the finishing of some things ( for instance the warmwater woodstove installation, finishing the bathroom, the serre and replace a wall) and the start of the garden i can use some help. So if you like nature, are a social nice, honest person and not drinking or smoking too much and like to talk things over and think befor you start you are very welcome in my home. I like to cook nice meals, swim every day in the lake and play with my dog and like to go for walks and sightseeiing..
  
  
  Update end of august 2019
  I am looking for smeone who is able to stay for the winterperiod and is technically skilled. And a fine person who know he or she can handle and like the solitude living here during winter. Not a firm alcoholdrinker or smoker if possible.
  I would like some nice company who can help with the house where I am finishing a Serre, making a wamth system with a warmwater woodstove and planned replacing the bathroom. I can use some help with my vegetable garden too.
  
  Update 11-04-2018
  Since half March I live permanent (dans ma maison) en France. I am looking for nice, honest, handy and positive people who can help me with restarting my vegetable garden, help me to cover the walls with clay inside, maybe learn me some more and better French(grammar). In exchange I can teach you some basic massage, show you the most beautifull places in this area, you can come with me to swimm every afternoon in the beautifull lake with silky water, enjoy my meals prepared with love out of my own vegetables, vegetarian if wanted. You can stay in the caravan in the garden and enjoy the beautifull surrounding and the sound of the river. Internetconexxion is ok but you cannot receive messages or phone at your mobile. There is a fixed line available.
  Warm welcome for a short or longer period,
  Greetings Aletta

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  Dutch: Fluent
  German: Intermediate
  French: Intermediate

  This host offers a language exchange
  I can teach English and I like to learn French better
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  Accommodation

  It is possible to stay in a room in the house or in a/or your campervan in front of the house, even in a tent on one of the terasses.
  In the garden is a dry toilet. In the house is running cold and warm water. There is a shower. There is a privat sheltered place in the river where you can take a bath during summer and winter.
  There is internet and connexion for mobile phones around the house.

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  What else ...

  The area where I live is very beatifull and you can walk here for hours, mountainbike and even skying in the mountains(vulcanos). Maurs have a market every thursdaymorning and lots of nice restaurants. There are lots of places to visit(Figeac,Rodez, Decazeville)

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  Can host digital nomads

  My internet isn't very good yet so if you need it for work come next year when there is glass fibre installed. I am working on a solution till that time, so ask me if you need good internet. It is in the proces

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  Space for parking camper vans

  You can easily park in front of my house and stay there with a campervan .

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  Can possibly accept pets

  I have two gentle dogs and three cats. If the dog is catfriendly no problem.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  Two

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