Where can you reduce clutter in your life?

My email. I love sorting, decluttering, call it what you will,but with a stylists head on. Not an officey kinda thing. So the inbox will need to wait.

Years ago, when I was about to leave a nanny’s job in Saudi. I was given a task, made for me, really.

Sheikh A and his family were moving into a seaside lux apartment, facing a mosque.

I had been there two years’ call to prayer was nothing new, but I didn’t think I could hack the early doors version. Luckily, I was headhunted for a new position in a neighbouring country.

On one particular day, I was given a lovely space in the apartment, which was to be the kids’ play room. All their kit, their toys, books, etc. had literally been collected up and dumped into the containers.

‘ Bring it on’.

I spent several hours doing my thing. Unpacking and arranging. No one had dropped by, so when they did I was soo pleased to read their faces. They were taken aback. I’d excelled myself. The space looked amazing.

I left the next day. Job done.