I’ve been a house and pet sitter for more than fifteen years now in Australia and overseas. I’m originally from Melbourne, Australia, but have now spent significant time in many other places in Australia and around the world (some photos further below).

During covid, and being restricted to Australia, I returned to full-time work for architects in Melbourne, and offered home based animal care during that time.

I lived in New Zealand from 2023 until 2025, where I got to foster, train and rehome three beautiful pound pups before returning to house sitting and getting to explore more of the South Island.

Working remotely and on temporary assignments gives me flexibility to travel so I’ve now returned to that, creating branding, marketing materials, desktop publishing and occasionally websites. My interests, other than caring for animals, include gardening, desktop publishing, travel, further education, creating things and getting out into nature.

I’m always learning something new. While in NZ, I did some studies in horticulture, grew vegetables, propagated many plants, and made kokedamas. I’m currently completing further studies remotely in Information and Communication Technologies and looking to do a TAE Training and Assessment Certification next year so I can teach remotely.

I have a genuine love for animals and creatures of all kinds (except mosquitoes) and enjoy slow travel, spending time living like a local in different places (some travel pics below). I’ve rented apartments in Paris, driven up the West Coast of Australia in a camper van to swim with whale sharks and manta rays, and looked after rescue and foster dogs in Bali. I’ve eaten my way down the south coast of Italy from Rome to Ravello, enjoyed a white Christmas and Hogmanay in Edinburgh, Scotland, and had a fortunate encounter with a pod of wild dolphins (yep, I got GoPro footage) in Hawaii while out swimming alone off Two Steps, and more. I’m currently working on adding a blog page to this website to share my adventures. Now after about 20 years I am travelling the East Coast again.

This time I’m travelling in my trusty Fiat Doblo called Dobby which doubles as a microcamper and is compact enough to fit just about anywhere with the same footprint as an SUV. The vehicle with pod sits at 2.2 metres high, this only really excludes me from some inner city/apartment sits without parking, my preference is to have driveway or off street parking, the car is alarmed but I prefer not to have to street park it.