We left Kieran here to look after the animals while Nick and I had a lovely few days with my brother and his family in London. So imagine what a shock it was to find that, while Kieran was driving to the airport to pick us up today, someone had cut through the chain securing the garage doors and calmly let themselves in.

They’ve propped loads of scaffolding up in one corner, put a heap of planks against the wall and  drawn lines all over the new floor, where the walls are going. So not your average burglar, but if he’d said, we’d have left Joel a key!