Babysitting for Dutch families is the best.
I used to babysit for a well to do dutch family, two young boys, the older boy ( as mentioned in another post) spoke english which was great as i didnt speak a word of dutch.
So generally he would translate for the younger boy, and for the father, a great big bearded bear of a sea captain.
I did pick up some words but probably not to be said in polite company.
Babysitting there was great, i often slept over, in a room specially for me that was like some luxurious hotel room.
And they introduced to the awesomeness of dutch waffle biscuits full of syrup that you put on top of a cup of hot drink so the syrup inside melted, I still love those
Gradually other dutch families they knew asked me to babysit and it wasnt unusual for me to be ferried miles away and dropped of in total strangers houses.
I dont know if its a dutch hospitality thing but in every single house there would a mountain of food and drink laid out in the kitchen with a 'help yourself'
And there was always some DeKuyper booze, which I thought was some kind of trap , my being only 16.
One evening however sticks in my mind.
Im driven to new house for the first time and the kids are already in bed, I'm told dont worry they wont wake and get up.
I spent all night trying to calm a hysterical 5yr old girl who came down to find a stranger in the house who didnt speak dutch, she screamed till she was sick and I had to wash vomit out of her hair while the poor thing was so terrified she gouged several lumps out of me, just as parents and various guests arrived home.
Parents went up to calm the child while i'm sat on the stairs trying to fend off the advances of one of their friends.
Who then volunteered to drive me home, I had to pretend I didnt know the way so the father had to drive me back, reluctantly and silently
That family never asked me to babysit again, creepy friend did but i had to decline.
Babysat for the original family a few more times till they split up, on my last job the mother gave me a £50 bonus and several nice things from the house
Which was nice
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 0:03, 3 replies)

Brainzzzzzzzz
...nothing about your story, just your signature: enjoy being a zombie!
(Wibblist Last said "Wibble" on, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 1:06, closed)

thank you
just got home and peeled my home made necrotic lesions off my face.
Its amazing what you can make with kitchen store cupboard items
The bullet wound to my chest will have to wait till later today to sort out.
My night of chewing raw licorish to produce black tongue and spewings of foul black bile will no doubt have a laxative effect later today.
But the photos are bloody awesome!
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Sun 31 Oct 2010, 3:35, closed)

Ahhhhh
Stroopwaffels :D

Dutch cuisine is never going to set the world alight but stroopwaffel, poffertjes (lil doughnut balls) and applekoek will always have a special place in my heart, they make a cracking dessert do the Nederlanders!
(AndySpanners not working too hard on, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 10:51, closed)