There is going to be no blood, sweat or tears because I am going to pace myself this time...

“You swore you’d never renovate anything again as long as you lived. You’ve been swearing that for my entire childhood.”

WEDNESDAY. My eldest son and his fiancé Janis have arrived home from London. They have not yet seen the new house that we have just bought but I’ve just shown them photographs of it online.

And silence has since fallen.