Roll up! Roll up! AP+ going free to a good home! :-)

[ingles2]

So, finally we have decided that with the "credit crunch" affecting my freelance work to let our very nice AP go.
So, she is now looking for a new family if anyone is interested?
She's a 22 yr old German girl, has been in the UK Aping about 13 months now (we're her 2nd family)
On the positives, she's a polite, cheerful girl, and is always optimistic. She is particularly good with the ds's, and will happily kick a football round for hours. Her English is very good and her driving is excellent.
The only downside is her cleaning is a bit hit and miss (but then I am quite anal )and her room a bit of a tip however she doesn't mind you picking her up on it and will always clean it up..
Overall, she's reliable, responsible and easy to have around.
She would quite like to stay in Kent, maybe Canterbury or T.Wells but is willing to go anywhere for the right family.
Any takers?

damn - thats a shame - you are always saying how lovely she is

how about jura?

though she isnt in out part of the world, so you ap would have to move further away

can you tell I like match making

assume ingles, that your ap doesnt make/build rockets?

Hi Imananny
I've been away getting trench foot camping in S o France...so am back to feeling like a newbie. Didn't jura have a new AP?
What happened there? I'll go look for her

indeed she did, but for varies reasons, one being she likes/wants to build a space rocket she has gone home

hope you had fun on holiday - have never understood why people go camping, I like the comfort of a bed that doesnt leak and pref a room with 4 walls and a roof, that doesnt move

Have just seen her thread
Poor Jura.....
You are so right on the camping...was stupidly lulled into a false sense of security last year by wonderful, warm and sunny camping trip.....never again! {until next year....or maybe the year after..... )

Hi Ingles

Jura's need is definately the biggest at the mo, and she deserves someone nice after her recent nightmare

Our new AP arrived last week and is due to stay until after xmas, otherwise we would have snaffled her up straight away. I just know that you will find a fab home for her somewhere else, and then my one will decide to move up to London or something....

If she is really keen on staying near Canterbury and doesn't want to move to London then we will certainly have her from January onwards, if she can find something else in the meantime? I also know someone in Chilham who has been thinking on and off of getting an AP, but her need is nowhere near as great as Jura's...

Hi Squiffy....
how are things with you? Is the Ap looking ok?
I was wondering if I could hang on to her for a while, but thought it was probably fairest to her to tell her now as her contract finishes in 4 weeks and nows the best time to find a family...
oh well, at least I wont have to secretly clean up behind her anymore

By the way, Ingles, do you work in London? There's a dinner this Friday night of some of the usual posters to these threads if you want to join us... here

Oh X-posts.

Yes, new AP a little shy but looking good so far - kids have taken to her, she is great round the house, good English. I am not sure though if she might get a little homesick.. first time away from Finland, looking a little bit lost.

Fingers crossed.

Oh No! Would love to come out, but have to go to (another) blardy wedding on Friday. Only 2 more to go this year....

I'll keep my fingers crossed

Cat'd you already Jura......

Hi ingles, did you have a fab time?

Are you free to go to Bedgebury this week? Can't do Friday, but whilst I still have AP I'd love to meet up.

If Jura and your AP aren't a match made in heaven, I will be AP less from next week - I keep trying to convince myself that I can manage alone .

Hi Marmaduke
Am really sorry but I'm in London...it's still xmas
Will email tonight after work..
Jura...no CAT yet, but hopefully when I get back.
Have a good day ladies x

hi Ingles
that's a shame, but guess the right decision.

Squiffy - are you also in Kent? whereabouts? I am friends with a Finnish/English family and they have a Finnish au pair - if your AP would like a local contact? They are Crowborough.

I'll vouch for Jura and one of her children (haven't met the others). She makes a lovely cuppa.

Weegle, we're in Canterbury so the 'wrong' side of kent as far as Crowborough is concerned, but thank you for thinking of us. I am going to book Anne up with BSM assesment this week to see if she is ok for driving, then maybe she might be more mobile, but in meantime I haven't even suceeded in getting her to go for a walk in the orchards by herself yet....

I can vouch for Jura too.

She is totally lovely. Can put up with my drunken blabbering, and also get me on the tube and HOME - though not sure Jura wants an ap that require those sort of maternal/managerial skills....

Jura is lovely, funny, as "normal" as any accountant type mumsnetter can be....

If she's still going...Does she drive? We are desperate ours has decided to leave just before school starts!

So, no one os going to mention the cheese packaging and the very tidy linnen closet OCD tendancies?

Oh, okay, then I won't either.

Seriosly, Jura is a good employer. Treats here nannies/au pairs with respect and has been known to remind her DH (under threat of torture) that he must do the same.

Am I a good match maker then?

i immed thought of jura when i read ingles post

SHUSH about the cheese&linen cupboard - tbh its not HARD to wrap cheese, is it ffs

ingles - have sent you a CAT.