We would like you to help with getting Isla (5) and Jack (8) ready for school, collecting them after school, looking after them and doing some light housework. They finish school at 3 pm (Isla) and 3:25 pm (Jack, in a different location), and around lunchtime on Friday. It would be handy (but not essential) if you have a driver's license to be able to take them to some after school activities that are too far to walk to. Sometimes we may ask you to help out on a Saturday or Sunday, but we will make sure it will not add up to more than 30 hours in a week. We live in a green area with a small playground, a big playing field, hills, woods and a stream nearby, but we are also close to local shops and in about 15 minutes you can walk to the Meadows, which is at the edge of the city centre (Edinburgh's "Old Town"). We think it is more important to involve the kids in a range of activities then to keep the house particularly tidy. We hope you enjoy activities such as arts and crafts, baking, building a den in the woods, pick blackberries, hunt for "mini-beasts" (such as ladybirds). You will not need to cook every day, but it would be handy if you could start preparations or cook some days. On Friday it's 'pancake lunch', a tradition our first au pair introduced and the second au pair continued, to the children's delight!