When Kathy Hunter succeeded in getting the job as nanny to the five Newton-Brown children, she was over the moon. With two sets of twins, and an unexpected toddler, Kathy could see why Mrs Newton-Brown needed help – though she was a little surprised by how uninterested in their children the Newton-Browns were.
But there were other staff too, and the big house ran on smoothly-oiled wheels. And the oil was money – a great deal of it.
The trouble was, the whole luxurious life-style was based on fraud. Two years after Kathy arrived, Claud Newton-Brown’s embezzling ways were found out. He fled the country, one step ahead of the law, taking his wife with him. And leaving the children behind, with the bailiffs in possession.
The house, the cars, the furniture – everything was sold off to satisfy the creditors. None of the Newton-Brown’s family wanted anything to do with the five children. Apart from one elderly great-uncle.
“I do own a property – but it’s not much at all. And I have some children’s clothes, kept form my childhood. They’re not much either, but better than nothing. I will rent it to you for a year, and at the end of the year you can see if it will suffice.”
The property was an old open-cast mining site in the countryside. There were huts for the miners, still water-tight, water and electricity. But it was a bit of a change from their previous house.
Janina was the oldest of the children – by twenty minutes! And sometimes those twenty minutes weighed on her, damping her normal cheerful spirits.
John, her twin, used to say, “Why worry? All we have to do is get through today. And we’ll manage somehow.”
Paul, the next one down, was the real reason Kathy wanted to try and keep the family together. Shy and sensitive, life in a children’s home would have been very hard on him.
His twin sister, Pamela, on the other hand was not shy. Or sensitive. Spoilt and snobbish would be nearer the mark – and Kathy couldn’t feel much affection for her. Until Olivia came along, she’d been the baby of the family, and a rather spoilt one too.
But now they were, all of them, going to have to get used to a very different lifestyle from the spoilt and pampered one they’d previously known. Or go into a children’s home. Their sophisticated existence was behind them. They were going to have to learn to fend for themselves, to help instead of being waited on.
The long polished dining table was now six chairs round a fire pit.
And the miners who had once lived here had something much more basic than en-suite bathrooms.
Nor did the children have a bedroom each (full of toys) any more.
And Kathy and Olivia’s accommodation was pretty Spartan too.
The private schools had become a thing of the past – now it was a long and bumpy bus ride to the school in the nearest town – and they had to get used to being teased about their old-fashioned clothes.
Were they going to be able to meet the challenges ahead of them? Were they going to be able to find enough to eat, never mind improve their living accommodation? Only time would tell…
This is a renovacy – a renovation legacy, so to speak.Rules:
Kathy can’t have a job – she has to look after Olivia. She can get a baby sitter occasionally though, if she can afford it.
The children can’t get jobs, because they’re too young, but they can fish, collect things – anything like that to help earn money.
They need to be A grade students as fast as possible, and stay there.
Your goal is to transform their living accommodation into a proper home.
You can’t sell the wallpaper or flooring – you have to paper over it.
You can dumpster dive, root through junkyards and so on for anything you can find.
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