I cannot recommend Sam's childminding enough. She is a warm, loving, fun experienced childminder.
She helped make the settling in process as easy as it could be, and my son certainly made it a challenge, but Sam constantly sought to look at different methods to work us to try smooth the way.
It made it a bit less difficult for me to go back to work, knowing that my son was being really well taken care of. And I love the picture updates I get of what he's up to during the day.
They do lots of creative arts and crafts project. (Me and granddad are a big fan of the 'baking' activities!) and weather permitting have lots of fun outdoors.
Sam's house is very well resourced with interesting things for the children to do, focused on different areas of learning, but with lots of time to just 'be' and enjoy play.
Sam's children are a real pleasure to be around and I feel glad that my boy will have such a warm positive group of people around him in his early years.