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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: how can I learn to cope with my husband’s mess?

13 November 2021

9:00 AM

13 November 2021

9:00 AM

Q. My husband has fallen in love with ‘the country’ and retired to Exmoor while I maintain a presence in our Notting Hill residence for work. The problem is he has left his London study, carved from half our ground-floor sitting room, in its traditional disordered condition as if he has only popped out to buy milk — drifts of detritus, newspapers and plastic bags on every surface.

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