My cleaner is a bloke actually, who owns his own business, and who Does Not Do Childcare. Memorably I entertained his eldest once for two hours while he cleaned for me. He turned up and presented me with the lad, and said, "I knew it would be alright as you are an educationalist". I was a bit nonplussed. Obviously I find children endlessly fascinating, and indeed he was a charming boy, albeit with a slight speech delay that I managed to work with him on for the duration, but it was a bit topsy-turvy as a setup. I am lucky he hasn't brought his two semi-delinquent dogs over for pet therapy, frankly. 
You may be interested to know that I have put an advert for a p/t housekeeper on Gumtree. I have had two very good p/t housekeepers in the past who both stayed with me for some years, and they were great at being supportive domestically whilst also keeping an eye on Other Employees. If I could find another one I would really have started organising a much better setup here, I think. I have a book contract to fulfil and I am sending a LOT of time on domestic stuff, and it is really starting to worry me.
However I do wish a Nou Nou would magically appear on a park bench for me. I am curious as to what they are paid and how the relationship is managed. Perhaps Bonsoir can tell us a bit more.
Update on current situation here: boys are worried the hamster is roaming then house untended and uncared for. However none of them seems to give a stuff about the AP that has just left, which possibly says something. I think he didn't engage much with the older ones apart from to bark occasional commands at them. Jury is out on the fluids. Looked like wee to me, frankly. DS1 reckons that and the fact we found drawer after drawer full of recycling suggests a kind of weird OCD which DS1 no doubt learned about on Reddit.
Life is never dull chez Boff. I am filled with joy that I don't have to look at that bugger's miserable face at the end of the meal table every evening, and force conversation. He really was a bore. Have invited previous, rather jolly AP back but I think she already has a summer job 
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