'Mentally, I have already moved into the house' Credit: Jooney Woodward Weeks pass, waiting anxiously in the tree house with my life still packed-up in a London storage unit. The exchange date I’d hoped comes and goes. I kick myself for being so optimistic. To think that, even in a pandemic with half the country moving house, I could still rush through my sale in six to eight weeks. I begin to understand why Escape to the Country wraps up with a couple picking a house – so we never see the tormented legal wrangling that comes next. (Grand Designs is more honest in this respect.)