Work
Anyone use nurseries round Chiswick area?
MammyShirl · 07/01/2004 14:34
My 9 month old dd is becoming a bit too much work for my mother who looks after her twice a week. I was thinking about putting her in a nursery for the two days i work. Anyone use any round Chiswick/Acton? Is 9 months too early?
BadHair · 13/01/2004 18:24
MammyShirl - I've only just seen your post. My ds1 used to go to Buffer Bear in Acton (Stanley Place, just off The Vale, opposite the park), and they were fab. That was 2 years ago, though (only because we left London, otherwise he'd probably be there still), but everything was spotless and the toys were all new, they had a small enclosed courtyard so the children could go outside, and the older children used to go across to Acton Park on nice days. The food was lovely too - made me hungry just reading the menus. He had his first (very mild)curry there, and tasted loads of things that there was no way he'd touch at home.
It's co-funded by BBC Worldwide as the nursery for their staff, if that makes any difference. The Manager was called Aran Ford, if I remember rightly, and she was lovely. The staff were quite young, but they were closely supervised and they really were great with ds1.
He was 5 months when he started and after a few initial hiccups he settled in fine. In fact it was me that used to blub when I left him in the mornings, not him.
CountessDracula · 13/01/2004 18:56
Mammyshirl have you seen my thread? I live in East Sheen only about 1 mile from Chiswick and my nanny is looking for another babe a couple of days a week to earn some extra money - she is fantastic with children (has an older dd of her own) and lives in Putney but comes to my house every day. Just a thought if you might be interested in that rather than a nursery. BTW she takes dd to playgroup 3 or 4 days a week so still getting well socialised
CountessDracula · 14/01/2004 14:17
Excellent - am just popping out and mobile not charged but will be back 3pm ish. If you're interested we can arrange for you to pop over sometime and meet dd/nanny/me and have a chat about it.
She is one of these people who seems to be able to look after about 4 kids and still leave the house immaculate afterwards - I have dd for 2 days and it looks like we've been burgled!
To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.