The majority of our worldly goods were packed and shipped two weeks ago and are currently on a ship bound for New Orleans. Once the packers came it was a relatively painless process, we just kept out of the way in one of the bedrooms while they wrapped everything (and I mean everything) in white bubble wrap.

I spent the remaining 12 days in London cleaning the oven, picking up lego, going to the theatre – to the Globe to see ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ and the Shaftesbury to see ‘Hairspray’ – and generally getting stressed about the sheer amount of stuff we still had.

We locked our door for the last time on Monday and headed north for Glasgow. We have two weeks in Scotland with our families before fly out of Heathrow Airport on the 7th August.