Walk For Homes - Week 1 update!

Walk for Homes: Week 1 update!

It's now 1 whole week since Sarah left Hastings and she has managed to make it to Bristol without major incident (barring a bout of falling over and struggling to get up again courtesy of the unweildy house in the Mendip Hills).

Some highlights from the trip so far include:

Staying with a nice activist couple in Lewes

Bumping into an old friend of a friend in the street in Lewes while dressed as a house. Had no idea they lived there!

Losing a sandal, finding sandal propped up politely against a wall.

Meeting the first coop in Lewes, they had the same idea about travelling around! But maybe not in costume...good shout.

Carrying a giant roll of QR codes in the rain

Staying in the whole spare flat of an old uni buddy (they had new tenants moving in 3 days later!) Met spiderman.

Binning the hell boots. Sandals and socks it is.

Nice people drinking on a bench scanned the QR

Bumping into local photographer in Brighton

Getting given some coins by someone who drove past Housegirl walking along the motorway the day before.

Binsted - endless cake and choir music and bamboo replacement hunt around the estate.

Housegirl on Portsmouth ferry

Free ice cream in Southampton! Solidarity with workers

Lots of donations outside a bar, accidentally used some sign language to say thank you. Walking across the bridge as the sun sets with a tenner 5mins from next coop.

Lovely dinner and chat with Hamwic Housing coop. Its a massive coop initially formed by homeless veterans! Met some of the guys amazing puppets. Had a wander round their garden

Tea with Southampton October Bookshop Cooperative co-founder

Meeting (and staying with) the mayor of Glastonbury, who has spent most of her life in cooperative housing! Learnt LOTS!

Falling over for the 1st and 2nd time on the Mendip hills. Being helped up by a vicar who happened to be putting out his bins. Having a nice wee in a miniature woods.

Meeting HRH campaign group co-founder and all round saint Sam in Bristol. Sharing a bed with a rabbit. Finally having a rest day.

Walking through Bristol getting endless donations. I like Bristol!

Chasing boys on scooters and being threatened with a kiss. Edged away slowly.

Nice homeless people clapped at the house costume and offered some coins

The beautiful Windsor Terrace Coop and generous host Randi, who with the help of Sam, some much needing sewing repairs on the house

Re-creating Klippoty Klopp in a coop in the Cotswolds, turns out the co-founder is the mother in law of local film director !