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I was living in a big house on the outskirts of London. My children had left home and I thought that it was time to swap all the space I no longer needed for a bijou apartment in the centre of the city.

I knew exactly what I was looking for: I visualised a flat with French windows and a large sitting room, a balcony and a roof terrace. Everybody kept saying, ‘It’s not possible. There isn’t the availability. You can’t get all those things together.’ But I kept imagining myself in a flat just like that.

After looking for a while, I found a flat that wasn’t exactly like the one I imagined, but I went for it anyway. However, after I put in the offer, the seller took it off the market. I then went on holiday, a bit fed up with the process. Going on holiday gave me the chance to recollect my thoughts and think again about what I really wanted.

While I was away, my estate agent phoned me to tell me that he had three more apartments for me to see. I came back to London and he telephoned me again, but when I heard the details I wasn’t keen to see them as they were too expensive.

Eventually, when he realised that I wasn’t interested, he told me about another apartment. He hadn’t bothered to tell me about it originally because he wouldn’t have got the same commission on it.

I went to see it, and, of course, it was my dream flat. It needed lots of work doing to it—the bathroom would need changing around totally, the pipes replacing, the floor and the paintwork would all take money to fix—but it had the French windows and the large sitting room, the balcony and a roof terrace at the back, and it was right in the centre of London.

What’s more, even though it’s a busy part of town, now I have moved in, I always get a parking space. Even when it seems impossible, someone always clears out of a space just when I am looking for one!