Ms H was the first to admit the minute we were shown into her flat that "she had too much stuff"...not an unusual situation by any means when it comes to these types of missions.

She also had two cats who stared at us when we arrived, but one made a swift exit, perhaps in anticipation of what was to follow.

Ms H wanted us to move a chest out of her living room, and replace it with a wooden table currently in her kitchen, with the chest then going into the kitchen...did I mention her flat had very narrow corridors (very full of stuff).

The second task was to rotate her bed by 90 degrees, such that it was then positioned under the window - David and I agreed to revisit this particular challenge once we'd done the "easy part" (Ms H's well chosen words), as at first glance it appeared there was no spare space in any direction to permit rotation of any description.

Fortunately the drawers came out of the chest, so that made it lighter, and in turn the legs of the kitchen table could be removed, which made moving that easier too round the various corners. So after a bit of consideration, we had part one of the task completed, much to Ms H's delight.

Back to the bedroom - after a rapid decluttering of a multitude of different items into the narrow corridor outside, and removal of the drawers from another chest to make it lighter, we were ready to start moving - we shooed Ms H out of the way (she took it well...), and in a series of steps got the bed rotated far enough to allow us to move a smaller different chest along the wall, replug some wires, and finally fit the drawers back into the other chest.

It was then a case of returning all the items from the corridor back into the bedroom without knocking anything over or off the various surfaces whenever we moved or turned around.

By this time both cats had long escaped - David and I realised that putting our backpacks on in the flat would only end in object displacing disaster, so we shuffled our way out of the front door with bags in hand, ran into one of the cats who appeared remarkably unimpressed by it all, and bid the friendly and chatty Ms H farewell.