We do a nanny share with a family around the corner from us. The nanny's name is Judy (pic below). I don't know why I haven't written about her before really. She's Phillipino and has six kids of her own! Sam loves her. And I guess because of that, so do we. If you want to work, finding the right person to look after your baby is such a big thing to get right. We kind of lucked in with Judy. She is great with Sam and clearly adores him. We ask her to work pretty long hours too. She gets to ours at 6.45am so we can leave for work. One of us will then pick him up from either Zak's (other couple's son) or ours at 6.45pm. Like everyone, Judy has her.... little quirks. She has a thing for Nigerian satellite channels on TV. Yep, Nigerian Satellite channels???? which given that they look like the opening scenes to badly scripted, shot on handicam porn films, is a bit weird. She's also got what can only be described as a 'unique' dress sense, especially when she has somewhere to go in the evening - all stilettos and far too short mini-skirts. God knows what our neighbours and local cab drivers think when she totters out of our house in the evenings. I can imagine the 'I always knew there was something funny about that couple' conversations going on behind net curtains opposite. Judy's accent is really strong too so when Sam does eventually speak, he could well have a Phillipino twang. I guess it's different. Especially for Chiswick.
