Bookshelves just one battleground in the mental war of moving house

It’s dismaying to realise just how much of one’s life, at the point of moving, should have been in a skip years before.

As you fire one more item, you get chilly little reminders that you are the offspring of your parents

ANY GOOD shrink will tell you that when you move house, you get a kick in the psyche. The experience is one of six predictable life stressors. Stressors, which taken at the flood, can lead to physical or mental disaster.