I have now visited more than 20 nurseries within a 40 mile radius at least of home. The problem is I also have a 45 minute commute to my office, so I need to try to minimise the amount of extra detours to a nursery, for both our benefits as the last thing I imagine Imogen (or I!) will want to do after a long day at nursery is sit in a lot of traffic!

I can’t believe the difference in quality of nuseries. You can just get a feeling as soon as you walk in and there are plenty with fantastic facilities but no enthusiasm from the staff - it’s such a hard balance. I’ve decided I need to be more flexible, especially as 95% of those I have visited don’t actually have any spaces!

It’s incredibly stressful as well. Each time I phone a new place I have to wait one to two weeks to visit and then when I get there something has always let it down. Like the one where half the babies were covered in mess and half dressed, or the one where you had to take your own food, or the one that could only do two days a week instead of four, apart from one month in the year!

I didn’t know this was going to be so hard!