The task description was to move a triple wardrobe across the bedroom for Mr A to give him better access to his desk. Mr A's wife greeted David and I at the front gate when we arrived and said that she didn't think it was possible to do what was being asked...but if experience from these sorts of tasks has taught us anything, it's at least to give it a try...

Because what Mr A really wanted was for us to move a double wardrobe from its existing location, move a second triple wardrobe into the space vacated by the double wardrobe, and then move a second triple wardrobe into the new space vacated by the first triple wardrobe, with the double wardrobe then being moved into the old space that the second triple wardrobe had previously been occupying...all the while Mr A was in his hospital bed, precariously close to the action, and his room was chock full of other furniture.

We soon discovered that the double wardrobe was on a plinth, so pushing it at a comfortable shoulder height was only going to end in disaster, and we were pushing it on carpet. After getting low and "giving it some" we somehow we got this one moved out.

The next triple we simply couldn't budge unless we emptied the clothes from it - so we used Mr A's various chairs and other furniture as clothes horses, and then again adopting the bobsleigh push start position, slowly wriggled this one along the carpet - success...

Wardrobe three also needed its contents removed, so we had to first replace wardrobe two's contents, to free up the space on the clothes horses, and also empty a bathroom's worth of toiletries that were on the shelves to give ourselves any chance. Once done, we shoved that one across the carpet - magically it fitted into the space, and the bedroom door would still open.

It was then a question of somehow not tipping the double wardrobe onto Mr A in his bed, and walking this one across the carpet into the new space by the entrance door...and putting all the clothes and other items back into wardrobe three.

Neither Mr A nor Mrs A could quite believe that we'd been able to do what had been asked - to be honest I'm not sure David and I believed it either...as they say in the film "I'm feeling very Olympic today..."