
I n the middle of their tour of this cool, calm ground- floor flat in south-east London, Will and Lena Gottelier are keen to highlight a stretch of guttering outside the kitchen window. “That pipework is very special. It was the last job on our renovation to-do list,” Will explains. “And six hours later Lena went into labour.”
In fact, baby Monty had been incredibly obliging, arriving six days after his due date, to enable his parents to finish this labour of love.