We finally finished our new playroom at the weekend and I am still in shock at what a difference it has made to the whole house and its inhabitants.

Almost two years since we began closing off part of an upstairs terrace it was finished in just a weekend.

 Once the men came and laid the floor the change was instant, then Juan set about putting up the storage units while the girls and I began sorting the toys. I collected toys from all over the house; from cupboards, from the sitting room, from under beds, from everywhere. The battle against the toys, which had been the bane of my life for the past four years, was coming to a climax.

In just a couple of hours we had all the toys regimented into their own boxes and put away.