Nursery World - Cooking the books

Our October feature on unexpected extra duties for nannies sparked some memories for Debbie Chalmers NNEB of Cambridge. She writes, 'Back in 1992 I was a nanny to five children of two families who lived next door to each other. The eldest girl rode home from secondary school by bicycle and met me at her house when I had collected the younger children from primary school. But on the days she had a cookery lesson, she couldn't bring the finished dish home on her bicycle. So I was asked to drive her to school, meet her in the car park and take her cookery from her, then collect the other children as usual. The first time I did this, I wrote out the weekly invoice for her mother and added: "also collection of one apple crumble from school - no extra charge". Her copy of that invoice and mine have been kept as treasured reminders of those days, while the girl herself is now away at Oxford University.'

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