Brockwellfan

Hello We're looking for an afterschool nanny who is also happy to help with light housekeeping duties. We are looking for some one warm, active and reliable. Details are: - We have 2 school-aged children (currently both under 7); we live in Brixton, their school is in Herne Hill - Looking for someone to help 1-7pm 4 days a week (Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri) with potential for longer hours during school holidays - Role covers school pick up + after school care (including dinner) - on some days it'd involve taking them to after school activities. Also looking for help a couple hours before school pick up to help keep the house tidy, help with laundry, prep dinner - Kids are active, curious, chatty - they love being outdoors, high energy play, arts & crafts, books - Nanny must be comfortable doing school pick up using our electric cargo bike (10 minute easy cycle) Please reach out if interested!

I'm a parent of two young kids and I concur that's no excuse for not letting people pass, and not saying thank you if someone holds the door. But @heartblock I may well be one of the Judith Kerr parents who has inconvenienced you - very sorry if I have. Trouble is the pavement is very narrow outside the school which gives us very little option other than to hog it! The school has a group set up which is is in discussion with the council to try to improve the set up, partly to make it more convenient for everyone (parents, pupils, members of the public like you), and also to make it safer (the safety issue was highlighted by a car recently coming off the road and crashing through the school fence, thankfully not in school hours! There have also been close calls with overexcited kids straying from the very narrow pavement into the road in the crush of pick up). In the mean time, for the ~40 mins a day of pick up/drop off "rush-hour", I'd recommend using the other side of the road where the pavement is wider.