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Hi we are a small little new family located on the river lung in ballaghaderreen County Roscommon, 3 miles from the nearest town and close to train stations. We have lots of creative projects in mind to complete on our land, we have 3 yurts on site that will have a outdoor decking area made of recyclable plastic with a wood burning hot tub and a pizza oven. We are constantly thinking of new little art and building projects to add to the site. We have 21 acres of land that need maintenance (cutting grass / hedges / areas and buildings that need to be cleaned periodically). We run events over the year such as creative writing, summer camps, Brigids day events and many more. We are looking for hard working people with initiative to help with our dream. We would also like to find the right person to look after our little daughter ziggy, who is extremely sociable and smiley. We would be in and out of the house constantly and only down the field for most of the day. While looking after ziggy, cooking and light household duties would be appreciated. We are both musicans and love to meet new people and hear about different cultures and lands. Weekends you would be free and we can offer you lifts into town or to bus or train stations. Your accommodation would be a spacious/heated dorm room beside our house which maybe shared with another workaways from time to time. You will have your own lounge area with DVD player and own bathroom. On working days (usually monday - friday), we supply all food and will all sit together and eat for lunch and dinner, we supply the breakfast but the workawayers eat it in their own area. On non working days (usually saturday and sunday) workawayers often take a trip to explore other local towns or tourist attractions. If staying on site at the weekends, we provide the same breakfast as during the week, but you would be expected to provide your own food for your lunch and dinners. We usually do a trip to the supermarket on a thursday or friday, to allow workawayers to buy their food for the weekend if needed. We eat mainly vegeterian during the week but sometimes eat meat. The working day is 10am - 4pm 5 days a week. Work days are usually monday - friday, but there may be rare occasions when we need to change this, and work weekends in exchange for days off during the week. We are very sociable fun people and we often like to have a few beers and play poker or board games and hear about all your adventures and your life
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Our property is 21 acres jobs around the land will include groundworks, landscaping, planting & gerdening, building, artworks and probably lots of things we have not thought of yet. Our property also has a dojo on site (run by my father who lives close by) and there are martial arts and tai chi classes for varying levels of experience run weekly which you would be welcome to join in with free of charge. We run events for the park and there are lots of interesting people around.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
We require someone to help around the park, light building, gardening, painting helping with designs and creating artwork around the site. theres always a new buildingor art project around the corner. We would also require someone to look after our 4 yo daughter ziggy in our house. Duties would include playing, feeding, going on walks, and constantly smiling 'ziggy loves to smile' cooking and light household duties would be appreciated.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Intermediate
Accommodation
Spacious/heated dorm room beside our house that will be shared with other workawayers. You will have your own lounge room with DVD player and your own bathroom(seperate to accommodation. We have a DVD and book library that you are welcome to borrow from.
What else ...
On you days off you can come and go as you please. We can give you lifts into town to bars and shops and you can have the use of a bicycle. There are some good fishing and walking areas around that you can enjoy. We like to go to gigs and events and you would be welcome to come with us. I like to draw and paint and there are lots of inspiring views on our land perfect for sketching and painting.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.
Space for parking camper vans
we are a campsite.... always space for campervans
Can possibly accept pets
yes - depending on the pet and others staying on the site.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week, generally saturday and sunday will be your days off.
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On Tuesday, Wes and Ziggy are a great family who made me feel very welcome.
The atmosphere is very friendly, everyone takes turns cooking dinner and there are lots of activities to do with the other volunteers after his working day.
The grounds behind the glamping site are beautiful and very well… read more
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On Tuesday, Wes and Ziggy are a great family who made me feel very welcome.
The atmosphere is very friendly, everyone takes turns cooking dinner and there are lots of activities to do with the other volunteers after his working day.
The grounds behind the glamping site are beautiful and very well… read more
I stayed with them for a month from the end of February to the end of March. I did a lot of varied and very interesting manual work: electrical assembly, wood breaking, hedge cutting, shutter assembly, etc... Wes explained very well the different tasks of the… read more
Tuesday, Wes and Ziggy are really nice and welcoming people, they really take care of workawayer for food, accommodation and for work.
The work is various and really interesting!
For example we created decorations and stuff for the Halloween event. Each day, they explain us missions with patience and clearly.
The… read more
Thank you for this incredible adventure… read more
Work was never heavy and there are very varied tasks, perfect for everyone!
I am very… read more
The work we did included lots of grounds keeping including trimming hedges, cleaning the grass, an entire island makeover, powerwashing, and more general matainance. If you are lucky you will get to… read more
Tuesday is always happy and she always have a time for you if you have any problem.
You feal very fast as part of the family.
Definitely… read more
The work is pretty varied so it's unlikely you'll get bored with it. There's always some new project on the… read more
