Nick got in touch as I had looked at his profile and I was very impressed with his level of experience of caring for babies and toddlers. As our children are quite young (9 months and 3years old) he suggested that he came to meet us prior to us arranging for him to babysit. Meeting someone before hand is such a good idea as our children got to spend 45 minutes or so with him and we got look through his impressive portfolio - training course certificates, references from families. He's certainly been looking after children a long time.
It really helped put me at ease and I feel the children liked it as well as when Nick came to babysit, neither of my children seemed upset - they were more than happy to be left in his care.
Nick came by car so didn't need us to take him home which is great as when we had babysitters back in Canada we had to take them home, or arrange a cab for them. Much easier not having to worry about how the babysitter will get home. He also arrived a little early giving us a few extra minutes to get ready to leave which helped a lot.
I plan to book more nights out, now that we have a reliable babysitter whom I can trust to care for my children. I would recommend him, don't overlook this male nanny, he's fab.