ggg - I am currently looking for some summer help as our last au pair left rather suddenly 2 weeks ago (not because of us, we are lovely but she was offered the exact grown-up job she wanted back in Hungary). I am talking to various folk but no one so far is available until August / Sept. If none of the other people ahead of me on this thread work out, and she fancied a couple of months in Balham (Gateway to the South), I would be v interested to talk to her. We are away August 4th to 18th (in France) but she would be welcome to stay here while we are gone and then do a couple more weeks when we got back. My email is vix5868 at hotmail dot com.
Either way, I am glad the terrible teens have receded - I remember you had a tough time at one point.