Category Archives: Animals

Have Dog, will Travel

Posted on August 3, 2022 by susancarey

My Top tips for travelling/house-sittiing with your own pet. Continue reading →

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She is most definitely worth many Tuppences…

Posted on March 6, 2022 by susancarey

Here it is then, the long-awaited news about our new family addition, puppy named Tuppence. She is six-months old now. Sire, pictured below, the fabled blue mini JRT, Louie, of Much Wenlock; dam the even-more-fabled patterjack, Faith, of Herefordshire. Late … Continue reading →

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Artists, Saucy Boxes, and Konik Ponies

Posted on July 1, 2021 by susancarey

What do artists, Konik ponies and saucy boxes have in common? Read my blog to find out. Continue reading →

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Friends who Never Judge You

Posted on April 22, 2021 by susancarey

Loving and losing four-legged friends. The unique gift that animals bestow. Continue reading →

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Farewells in 2020

Posted on December 3, 2020 by susancarey

It’s been a strange year. There’s been the pandemic to cope with, I’ve had some mental health struggles, we have bought a new house in Nijmegen and plan to leave Amsterdam in the new year. As if that wasn’t enough … Continue reading →

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First House-sit of the Year

Posted on March 24, 2020 by susancarey

Unless you are a Buddha living under a tree you will have noticed we are in the grip of a pandemic which has severely restricted our freedom of movement. It now seems like some distant dream when we could move … Continue reading →

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Sailing along the Amsterdam Canals

Posted on August 27, 2019 by susancarey

Dear readers, I promised you a blog about Amsterdam and here it is! You might remember that Frank and I are OOPOEHs. Omas en Opas Passen Op Een Huisdier, which translates into the rather unflattering; Grandpas and Grandmas look after … Continue reading →

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All Good Things…

Posted on July 23, 2019 by susancarey

After two months of house-sitting it is sadly almost time to go home again. We’ve travelled through Hertfordshire, Nottinghamshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Cheshire, Leicestershire and spent the last two weeks in the smallest county in England, Rutland. … Continue reading →

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Llamas, Outrageous Wealth and The Black Death

Posted on June 7, 2019 by susancarey

It’s a first! pet-sitting llamas in deepest Peru, I mean deepest Hertfordshire. Continue reading →

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Coffee, Cake and Furry Friends #catcafe #jippies #haarlem

Posted on November 20, 2018 by susancarey

Haarlem is so close to Amsterdam that Frank and I often go there for a day trip. It’s much more civilised than Amsterdam. The Red Light District there is quite small which means it doesn’t attract the amount of low … Continue reading →

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