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Running a club whose kit is scattered across everyone’s spare rooms? There is a corner flag leaning against someone’s hallway wall right now. A bag of cones in the back of a car. The club’s good kit folded into a holdall in someone’s spare room, with a quiet understanding that nobody else will quite know […]

Not the loft, not the skip — so where do the keepsakes actually go? There is a particular kind of box that nobody can open and nobody can throw away. It sits at the back of the loft, or on the landing, or pushed under a spare bed. Inside are things that belong to someone […]

Boxes you can’t open and can’t throw away, and a loft that’s already full? There are boxes in a lot of lofts that nobody can bring themselves to open. They hold photographs from someone’s childhood. A parent’s handwriting on a card. A christening gown folded in tissue paper. None of it is rubbish. All of […]

Twenty desks and a comms rack to shift before the refit — to where? Every office refurbishment starts the same way. Someone pins a contractor start date to the calendar, and then someone else works backwards and realises the floor has to be completely clear before that date arrives. Twenty desks. A stack of monitors. […]

Where does the stall live between pitches, if not your hallway? There is a particular kind of tiredness that comes after a long market day. You have been on your feet since before the pitch opened, sold well, packed down in fading light, and now you are home with a gazebo propped against the hall […]

Will the unit be open when your market pitch starts at dawn? The load is done by seven on a Friday evening. The van is packed: the gazebo, the trestle tables, the crates of stock, the signage and the bags of tissue wrap. Everything is in order. The one question left is whether the storage […]

Decorators booked Thursday, but the old tenant’s furniture is still there? The tenant has just handed back the keys. You walk in and there it is: the three-seater sofa pushed against the wall, the dining table that seats four, a wardrobe the incoming tenant never asked for, a bed frame and a mattress that has […]

Is your house too full to show, rather than too small to sell? The living room has good bones. The fireplace is lovely. But there are two sofas, a shelving unit full of board games, a basket of dog toys and three coats over the banister, and the agent is coming tomorrow to take the […]

Is it time the garden furniture came in before the weather turns? There is a moment every autumn when you look at the patio table and chairs and realise the season is done. The garden has given you everything it is going to give this year. The cushions have had their last airing. And now […]