John Parnwell

Personal Bio

I am recently retired but fit as a fiddle and love to work and travel. I am a carpenter/builder by trade and have been a keen gardener for many years.

Basically I just like to be useful and fill my days with purposeful work. I am very handy with all farm tools and machinery and am a dab hand using a chainsaw and fencing.

I have set myself up with a caravan and ute that can go anywhere a half decent road leads. My best mate Gracie (10 yr old Boxer dog) comes with me wherever we go and she is no problem at all spending most days in the Ute after her morning walk with me at sun up.

I am looking for places to travel to where I can stay for a while and help out as much as I can in return for a place to park up and have a nice dinner of an evening with good company.

Why I joined WWOOF

I have tried the grey nomad life for the last 4 years however just travelling around without purpose isn’t suiting me well.

Gracie and I really enjoy travelling around and don’t want to settle in one place but we also want to find people I can help out in a meaningful way.

I am also looking for work where I can continue to learn new things as well. Ideally I would like to set up a number of places where we could travel between them semi-regularly and am open to places all over Australia.

I would be happy help out with building projects of any description, am still very handy on the tools and have all my own kit, however I am no longer a registered builder.