TPR found our new flat in Cardiff through the personal ads in a local paper. If I were still a student in the 1980s, I would have been terribly impressed with all the space, but the swirly patterned carpets and an array of broken appliances did not impress me in 2022.

Added to my disappointment at our new home, I was still half-heartedly stringing along JG-T, and worried about my mother-in-law’s visit. I hoped that the latter would be happy eating shop-bought food from the deli – and that TPR wouldn’t consider its purchase a waste of money.