Dbc 1 - Mot 0

mumoftwins

mumoftwins wrote: »

Right then - the twins are at their Dad's that weekend so it looks like it could be an MSE coffee morning with Mike Penning at Nash Mills Village Hall, Hemel Hempstead - need to check the time, was it 10am or 10.30am??

Its 10am til 12noon

mumoftwins

oops_a_daisy wrote: »

It was 10am. I just googled Mike Penning and it was on his website.

sorry but what do you mean by Cathy Come Home ampersand - its not too often that I am too young to know something :rotfl:

Oops! Sorry Oopsadaisy - great minds think alike;)

italian-tony

Will you people all please go to bed, I'm tired and my F5 key is getting worn out with all these new posts and I need my beauty sleep!

Mollymop5

Just a thought Mot but have you tried gumtree.com.there are some property listed but you could post a wanted ad for a house on there too, stating the areas you'd like and that you'd want it long term.

leoetal19

cathy come home amazing docu-prog about a woman n her kids made homeless-heartbreaking-part of social work degree early 80's devestating !!!

ampersand

pania wrote: »

I can be in your area if you need help to move. let me know where and when. xxx

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Hello again pania - I can give you your mis-directed parcel ex France at Nash Mills if you're there...:D

Spirit_2

vandanfc wrote: »

Spirit

When I posted this I believed that MOT was leaving her current place on Sunday, and would need a bed for the night. Tis was an immediate stop gap that was available to buy her some time. It certainly could be no worse than were she has had to stay since before Christmas and certainly would not need 3 days worth of cleaning to make it habitable (as her temporary accom. did).

Vanda

Hi - I was not criticising you, it was the fact that it was necessary for you to make this suggestion because our society does not prioritise its citizens and their children who fall on hard times for housing. This is neglectful and an inexcusable misappropriation of the public purse in a first world economy.

Spirit

mumoftwins

oops_a_daisy wrote: »

It was 10am. I just googled Mike Penning and it was on his website.

sorry but what do you mean by Cathy Come Home ampersand - its not too often that I am too young to know something :rotfl:

'Cathy Come Home' tells the story of a young northern lass (an emotionally powerful performance by Carol White), who makes her way to London, meets and marries a local lad, Reg (Ray Brooks), and soon finds herself the mother of three children. An accident at work leads to Reg's long term unemployment and as the story continues to unfold the family is torn apart by the fact that they have no permanent roof over their heads. Completely helpless, they slowly, but inexorably, fall headlong into a downward spiral of squalor, from a pokey caravan to an eventual hostel for the homeless. Torn apart in this way, the couple separate and eventually Reg stops paying for their keep, until Cathy and her children are thrown onto the streets.

The despair experienced by Cathy as her children are forcibly removed from her by Social Services in the final scene of the play touched the hearts of the nation. Gritty realism was achieved by keeping scenes to a minimum and, shot in documentary style with a hand held camera, a soundtrack devoid of music and punctuated with urban noise throughout, many viewers thought that they were watching a true story unfold, and those that didn't felt distinctly uncomfortable by the deliberate blurring between drama and documentary. Other critics defended the programme makers' right to introduce this near-reality in order to engage the viewers sympathy, a vital ingredient in bringing home Jeremy Sandford's message for the need for social reform.
Never before or since has one single piece of drama had such an effect on an entire nation. The play was watched by 12 million people - a quarter of the British population at the time and the stark realism of 'Cathy Come Home' led many of them to make angry calls for action to prevent such circumstances from happening. The changes in social attitudes and awareness were significant, and the issues addressed were discussed in Parliament. As a direct result of the play the homeless charity, Shelter, was founded a week later as a national campaign for the homeless, and quickly became an important voice in housing matters.
Stark, unremittingly grim and charged with a palpable tragic power which haunts the minds of those who saw it to this very day, 'Cathy Come Home' remains as a truly ground-breaking piece of dramatic documentary fiction which was to cause great debate over the very nature of broadcast drama. Although director Loach has constantly refused to take credit for the impact that "Cathy" had on social attitudes, stating that the drama had a minimal effect, and reminding us that the homeless problem is far worse today than it ever was in the 1960's, rarely has a programme so clearly illustrated the true power of television. Even more rarely has television succeeded in touching the conscience of an entire nation.

LL likened me to this woman!!! And this is how he came to say, in front of the twins, that they would be taken away from me and I would end up in a single persons hostel!!!!

oops_a_daisy

awwww I am coming down to the village next door to Hemel on Friday afternoon and Sunday afternoon but not Saturday

ampersand

mumoftwins wrote: »

Goodness Ampersand! You are one he** of a woman;)

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i.e. 'This woman is Hell'