Cathy come Home

Happy Golden Anniversary, Cathy, Our Kid!

To celebrate your Golden, homecoming, ourselves, close family and friends, slept rough for one night in early spring 2016.

Yup! We spent one whole golden, night sleeping rough. Well, Sort of gold guilt, rough.

We slept in a ‘venue’ where we had a fast food stand, live music, security and a portable loo, a sort of homeless, venue, we guess.

By morning we were freezing, had started a verbal fight with a group playing football, drank loads, got questioned by ‘security’, had to answer to our history and couldn’t wait to ‘come home’.

All this gilt in ‘just’ one night.

Damn! We still didn’t win the best ‘cardboard box’ construction home.

Why? Because we had taken a corner spot to set up our cardboard ‘home’.

We had worked out right angled positioned as well. To keep out the draft.

Yet, we had failed in our desperation, to notice the cracked windows above us! Rain poured in, the wind howled and we were wet , cold and miserable, all night long! Hence the fights. We were tired, worn out and just wanted to sleep.

Sleep. Just sleep.

We were with our kids that night. The live music washed over us, the football game enraged us . Yup, we even started an argument on the band as well. The argument was: why play homeless tunes to the homeless?

Don’t they already know that song?

Quote from our kid that night : ‘ the homeless people I came into contact with, when I was homeless myself, had nothing but we’re the most genuine, generous and kind people I ever met...being homeless makes you feel worthless and alone. Most loneliest feeling in the world. Scared and like a grain of sand...unimportant’.

Shelter, was set up in 1966 : “That same year the BBC screened ‘Cathy Come Home’ ; Ken Loach directed a film, about a young family pulled apart by worsening housing conditions. Watched by over 12 million people, its impact ensured public empathy and support for Shelter from our very beginning.” Shelter and St Basils still welcomes ‘Our Kids’ we support ‘ Shelter’ and St Basils because they support ‘ Our Kids’

It is now 2016 and ‘ homelessness’ is still an issue today , for example: ‘Being’ homeless appears contingent, Shelter continues to state that: ‘ 117 families in Britain ‘ Become’ homeless every day. Shelter have been campaigning since 1966, and state : “we won’t stop until there’s a safe, secure, affordable home for everyone.”

Read or watch ‘ Cathy Come Home’ Thank you, Shelter, Jeremy Sandford, Tony Garnett, Ken Loach, we are still with we are still with you on this Golden anniversary, our kid