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Helping on a smallholding and house sitting in rural Northumberland, England, UK

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  2025 

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  • Descrição

    Descrição

    We have a 20 acre smallholding in north Northumberland, about an hour north of Newcastle and an hour and a half to Edinburgh.


    I am a retired primary school teacher and my husband, Dave, is a retired high school teacher and together we have done a lot of building/renovation work on the cottage where we now live. It had not been lived in for 40 years but now we have a lovely home here .We have some sheep and hens , geese as well as 2 cats. The lambs are born in April and May. We have a polytunnel where we grow lots of our vegetables and fruit bushes and more vegetable areas outside. We have been making a garden as when we came here there was no garden at all but obviously plenty of space for one.

    We Spend most of our time outside in the summer working on the garden, fields and woodland but we also enjoy cycling, mountain biking, walking and going to the local beaches. I work in a charity shop for one day a week and am also learning Spanish and trying to improve my French.

    Our garden has flowers, vegetables, fruit bushes, a polytunnel and a greenhouse. We have planted about 3000 trees since we have been here.

  • Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

    Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

    Prática de idiomas
    Ajuda em projetos ambientais
    Jardinagem
    Construção/faça você mesmo
    Cuidar de animais
    Criar/cozinhar refeições caseiras
    Ajuda a cuidar da casa
    Manutenção geral
    House sitting
  • Interesses

    Interesses

    Vida na estrada
    Autodesenvolvimento
    Eventos e social
    Política/justiça social
    Vegetariano/vegano
    Sustentabilidade
    Fazenda
    Trabalho beneficente
    História
    Cuidar de plantas
    Livros
    Faça você mesmo
    Música
    Idiomas
    Jardinagem
    Culinária e comida
    Carpintaria
    Animais
    Ciclismo
    Caminhada
    Atividades ao ar livre
    Praia
    Montanhas
    Naturaleza
    Camping
  • Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

    Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

    Exploring the area or using our bikes, going by bus/train to Newcastle, Edinburgh. We have a piano too.Also you would learn or improve your English and see lots of the local area. If you play an instrument our local ceilidh band would love you to come and play with them.

  • Ajuda

    Ajuda

    We would like house sitters to come and stay while we are away on holiday. The main tasks would be to feed the hens and collect the eggs; feed the sheep once a day; give the geese fresh water and feed our 2 cats. We would like you to keep the cottage tidy and water our plants in the polytunnel and greenhouse. At other times when we are at home we would like volunteers to help us around the smallholding with the garden, planting trees, looking after the woodland and fields and generally helping around the cottage.

  • Idiomas

    Inglês: Fluente
    Francês: Intermediário

  • Acomodação

    Acomodação

    A double bedroom in the cottage

  • Algo mais...

    Algo mais...

    Shielhope is about 2km from the village of Chatton where there is a small shop/ post office and a pub.The countryside around here is very beautiful and quite wild. The Cheviots are about 5 miles away to the west and the coast with its long sandy beaches and castles about 10 miles to the east. It is ideal country for cycling, walking, mountain biking and climbing (there are several crags nearby) so if you like the outdoors and don't mind being away from the city this is the ideal spot. The nearest towns with more shops, swimming pools etc are Alnwick (14 miles) or Berwick (16 miles). There is public transport from the village to Wooler and then on to Alnwick and Newcastle.
    We have bikes that you can use too.

  • Mais alguns detalhes

    Mais alguns detalhes

    • Acesso à internet

    • Acesso à internet limitado

      Acesso à internet limitado

    • Temos mascotes

    • Somos fumantes

    • Pode hospedar famílias

  • Espaço para estacionar campervans

    Espaço para estacionar campervans

    Plenty of space for motor home/campervan

  • Pode aceitar animais

    Pode aceitar animais

    Well trained pets only. We have sheep and hens. Pets shouldn’t sleep in bedrooms.

  • Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

    Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

    2

  • Meus animais / animais de estimação

    Meus animais / animais de estimação

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    14 ewes and 14 lambs

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