The part I want is being trusted with the house when nobody is in it

What I want is not being given jobs while somebody watches. It is being the person who keeps a house running for a week while she is away, so that she comes back to a place that carries on exactly as if she had never left. Post, plants, the boiler man, the cat who will only eat the one thing. Nothing having gone wrong is the whole of what I am offering.

Thirty four, Salford, I work from home in a job that could be done from anywhere, no children and no commitments that cannot be moved.

I understand perfectly that this is the last thing anybody hands a stranger, and I am not asking for it in month one. I am saying it because I would rather be honest about where I am aiming than pretend what I want is to hoover under supervision.

Long before that I would want ordinary standing duties with somebody checking them properly, and years of it if that is what it takes. I am patient in a way that surprises people and I do not lose interest when nothing much is happening.

Nothing paid, no money either way, and no keys until whenever she decides, if ever. What I do not want is to be trusted quickly. A woman who hands me a key in the first month is not a woman I would trust either.