If you are moving in E9, you already know the problem is rarely the sofa or the boxes. It is the street, the turning space, the parked cars, the awkward stairs, and the feeling that everything is just a little too tight.

Moving house or business in Hackney should be stressful enough without the invoice creeping up after the van has left.

Moving out of a parkside flat in London Fields sounds simple enough until you are standing by a narrow hallway with a sofa that looked smaller in the shop, the lift is busy, and a cyclist has just blocked the kerb outside.

End of term has a way of turning even the calmest student into a very organised, slightly frazzled packer.