You are a brave man doing bike jobs in the house !
The OH's bike and the OH's house!!! To be fair there is a piece of old carpet or two in that corner of the lounge (you can see from pic) as she has the turbo set up there, so as long as I don't stray from there its Ok. I did get a "mind my carpet" when I was taking the chain off!
Not sure what changed between last night and the night before - maybe messing with the rubber seal thing at top of headset which was stopping it moving downwards - but it only took a very light mallet tap and it fell out, whereas night before it seemed stuck solid.