On the first night in their new home Andrew and Caitlin Mace should have been popping open a bottle of something cold and fizzy to reward themselves after a long but rewarding day. In reality, their youngest child was asleep in his pushchair in the back garden – his bed had been stranded on the motorway. Their two older children were milling around long past bedtime. A number of their possessions had been abandoned, and the removal men were getting mutinous about having to work late.
Ah the joys of moving house, one of life’s watershed moments, right up there in the stress stakes along with death and divorce. There are few home movers who don’t have battle scars – be that because of recalcitrant
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