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Séamas O’Reilly

REVEALED: The lighthearted side of moving house | Vintage Vibes

‘The chief mover, Raldo, showed remarkable agility at the van’: Séamas O’Reilly.
‘The chief mover, Raldo, showed remarkable agility at the van’: Séamas O’Reilly. Photograph: Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images

They say moving house is the most stressful thing anyone does, barring bereavement and divorce. In researching that phrase, I’ve discovered that ‘they’ was a study commissioned by a real estate company, which rather dampens its credibility.

Well, I don’t know about that, but we moved house this week and it wasn’t easy. It was, however, necessary since our lovely Hackney flat was just too small and, it turns out, too lovely, to last us as a growing family. And so, for the second time in four years, my wife and I moved everything we owned across London to a slightly bigger and more expensive rental, while one of us was eight months pregnant.

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