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I am a College Lecturer in my early sixties and I live in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, UK. I am friendly and patient, and able to give clear tasks. I value and respect the company of others, and I wish to welcome people into my living situation. I have two children (both boys -14 and 21) who live with their mother (my erstwhile wife) in the next town from me. At present I am in rented accommodation, but buying a place of my own to move to very near by. I anticipate moving to the new property within the next two months or so.
Gardening
Building
General Maintenance
Cooking / shopping
Other
Help with Eco project
Help in the house
Animal care
Help with Computers / internet
Travellers will have an experience of living in a quiet beautiful location and community, within easy reach of London, where I can recommend interesting places to visit. Meeting and being with friends and family. Taking care of our wonderful dog. (Previous Travellers have particularly enjoyed this).
Terms of board and lodging; free lodging is offered with the usual family cooking facilities: Travellers are expected to provide and pay for their own food items.
I am seeking people to help me with:
- the daily chores of life in the house (shopping, cooking, washing, ironing, cleaning)
- dog-walking
- moving my belongings to a new home. The move will be just two doors away, in the same street, but there are steps up and down......
- building/carpentry work in the new house: making a lean-to for example
- painting the internal walls of the new house
- gardening (not so necessary in the Autumn/Winter months).
I am looking for people who are trustworthy and willing to work a reasonable amount of hours per day on given tasks, preferably without my supervision.
I have no restrictions concerning life preferences such as vegetarianism, but I am looking for non-smokers. Single people or attached couples are both fine, and no particular skills are required, other than a willingness to work carefully and independently. Occasional help with IT issues would be useful, but not essential.
English and a little French
Both the present house and the one I am buying have three bedrooms (the houses are in the same terrace - just two doors apart), and long gardens, and it is a quiet location, with nearby woods to walk in. Chesham is around an hour’s tube journey to London (on the Metropolitan Line), and is a quiet town, with plenty of shopping facilities, set in the beautiful countryside of the Chiltern Hills.
A Day Travel-card to London is around £15.00 off-peak, and Marylebone is close to the centre of London. We are also on the London Transport Metropolitan line. There are also beautiful local walks to enjoy.
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
More than two
Maximum 15 hours per week (3 hours, 5 days).
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