Today's task to help clear space in the living room to enable Ms E to return home from hospital felt like the culmination of David and my furniture shifting experience of recent times - helped enormously by Ms E's social worker being on site to direct us to exactly what needed moving and to where.

All the items we moved fitted neatly through the doorways in the flat without presenting us with too many spatial challenges, and having earlier prepared space in which to put them, and keep a passageway clear to a cupboard in that room, we made rapid progress getting the living room cleared, and one heavy bureau aside that seemed to have a number of false front drawers...nothing fell apart in our hands either (always a relief).