Farm Stays Banjup WA

Arrive at this beautiful location in the suburbs of Perth. Very quiet, house, shed and grounds surrounded by trees and shrubs - a large block. Greeted by lovely hosts Kirk and Christine - very welcoming and quickly have us parked up with our caravan right to be unhitched. They leave us 'to it' to settle in and relax. Which we're happily doing - cuppas in hand. Roger and I agree that we're just going to stay here for the day - enjoy the nice tranquil setting. Lunch - Roger makes himself a meat and salad sandwich, I make up a couple of open toasties - 2 slices bread, chutney, avocado, sliced tomato, ham and cheese. I potter about in the caravan, sorting things and reorganising while Rog content doing the same with the ute and reading his book in the shade. I call Sharon and have a lovely catch up chat - main news is that Peter and Sharon have just got their new Subaru Outback - traded their 'lemon Subaru' in! We enjoy an evening drink out on the lawn with our camp chairs in the shade from the trees - lovely breeze. Tea is reheated leftover Chilli Con Carne served over microwaved spuds with parmesan cheese. We've snacked on macadamia nuts throughout the day - so skip dessert. Roger has his shower. I do the dishes. Now just relaxing before bed.
19/12/24 Thursday Get up before 6.30am as I'm keen to go for a run this morning, I head out and get back before 8am. Time to have a shower, while the Thermomix cooks my porridge. Roger has lunch already packed for our day's outing. So once I'm organised we head off for our drive to nearby Roleystone to meet up with our next housesit owner to have a 'run through' of what's required. We met Colleen in plenty of time for our 10am, and she introduces us to the 2 small dogs we'll be looking after and shows us around the extensive garden that will require watering. I think Roger's going to be quite busy here! All good with the instructions, so we leave Colleen's place with the house spare keys, assuring her we'll be fine to start the housesit on Saturday. They'll be already gone by the time we arrive.
Now we head to the closest shopping area to check out what's going to be nearby for us. There's a good IGA, and I'm happy there's a Newsagent/Lotto/Post shop where I can send off the cards and parcels I got organised yesterday. It's my brother Leigh's birthday today so I get a lotto ticket to put in with the card I'm sending. Roger's been having a cappuccino at a cafe while I get my post stuff sorted. I join him for a fruit juice. Roger's also organised tickets to the speedway for Boxing Day - so we can watch Damian Hudson racing.
We decide to drive about Roleystone and see what we find - we come across a fresh fruit and produce shop so have a look. About lunchtime now so we drive about until we find a park, but we stay in the ute to eat our sandwiches. Decide to head to the closest Visitor Centre and see what ideas we can get.
We return from our Roleystone trip around 4pm. Relax out on the lovely lawn area - and our hosts come over for a brief chat - while we all enjoy our drinks. Next, time to get tea happening - I'm doing a Thermomix meal, chicken cashew again. It's almost 8pm by the time we eat, so once we have, we don't muck around - tidy up and now relax before bed.
20/12/24 Friday. I wake up and get up at 6.30am - before Roger, so I can offer to make him porridge as well. We have breakfast and leisurely get organised to go for a drive. Roger has a booking to give blood at 10am in Cannington (approx 30kms away) so we have plenty of time. Can't help ourselves- we leave about 9am.
We return just after 2pm - ready to relax and enjoy our nice tranquil setting here. We like sitting in the shade of the lovely trees, on the beautiful green lawn catching the breeze. Very nice!
Tea tonight is very easy - heat up leftover chicken and cashew, dessert we finish off the rocky road (bought at Swan Valley chocolate place) we've been enjoying this afternoon.
Tidy up and read until sleeptime.
21/12/24 Saturday. I wake up early so I head off for a run, leave 6am and do the same route I did the other day. Get back and Roger pretty much has us ready to go - I just need to have my breakfast, shower, make the bed and do the dishes. Which happens and away we go. Sad to leave this very nice, relaxing place - at $25 a night with power (and use of a toilet if we wanted - which we didn't, but turned out might have been better if we had! We are finding that there are no dump points handy!). We leave heading straight to Armadale Post Office (it is open until 12 noon) to pick up a parcel that couldn't be delivered to Marilyn's as noone there to collect. This turns out to be the Moorish Nuts hamper I ordered for Christmas with the Walker clan. While at the Armadale shopping centre we do a grocery shop in Coles before we head to our housesit residence in Hookway St Roleystone.Leggi altro