Julie Jay: Childminders are like Taylor Swift tickets — you can’t put a price on them

"It all sounds a bit too much like effort when you could just switch on the movie Super Mario Bros and be done with it..."

OUR childminder is on a well-deserved holiday, and we are faced with long days to be filled and memories to be made, all against the backdrop of a very wet July and a sodden August.

I would love to pretend we weren’t the family who forgot our childminder was going on holiday.