The House Sitting Buddhist

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Hello!

My name is Scott and I am 38 years old, originally from Hampshire in the south of England. I am a former physicist, having worked for a space company building satellites. However, during that time I developed a keen interest in mindful practice and eastern philosophy. I began to attend Buddhist meditation and tai chi classes. Then, 3 years ago I decided to take a career break and explore my interests in mindful practices and off-grid sustainable living. I spent 6 months volunteering at a Yoga retreat in Somerset, where I maintained the gardens and became the handy man renovating and repairing various things. I then moved to Ireland and stayed with a small off-grid community for 9 months, where I built a hydro power system and installed solar power. Afterwards I spent 18 months volunteering at a Buddhist retreat centre in Scotland where I took the role of lands manager, maintaining 50 acres of woodland, meadows, flower beds and vegetable plots and carrying out routine maintenance and repairs on the buildings.
For 5 months last year I travelled through China training at Tai Chi and Qi Gong schools, with the hopes of becoming a teacher one day.
I am currently back in the UK doing a series of house sits while I integrate all of my experience in writing, blogging and eventually setting up a practice. So I am looking for somewhere quiet where we can tuck away for a while to practice Tai Chi, write my Blog and simply use the space as a mindful, self-reflective and meditative retreat.

My experience of house sitting are as follows:
2 month house sit in Yorkshire looking after 2 chickens and overseeing some building work while the owners were away.
1 month house sit in Kent where I looked after an 8 year old Old English Sheep Dog and tended to the garden.
1 month house sit in Hong Kong looking after a cat (via Trusted House Sitters).
3 week house sit in Scotland looking after rabbits, chickens and a tortoise, as well as vegetable plots and greenhouses (via HouseSittersUK)!
3 week house sit in Hampshire looking after a 3 year old labradoodle and looking after a large garden during drought (via HouseSittersUK).
6 week house sit in Ixworth looking after 3 elderly cats in a lovely cottage, and fish in a garden pond!
4 week house sit in Yorkshire looking after a Labrador and a cat (via MindAHome).
2 week house sit in Somerset looking after a small rescue dog (self-arranged).
3 month house sit in Bristol looking after an elderly cat (via HouseSittersUK).
The list continues! I am happy to house sit anywhere in the UK as I have my own car.

As a Tai Chi and meditation practitioner I am a quiet, compassionate and respectful individual, and like to keep the spaces clean and tidy. I am happy to maintain any gardens etc in modest sprints (I have a bad knee) and look after pets. I have a strong affinity towards animals and grew up with cats, fish and Guinea pigs, and I have looked after numerous dogs from neighbours, friends and colleagues (mostly border collies). I also used to have my own pet reptile (bearded dragon) so I have experience with that as well.

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