deargod

I just organised a hen do here: http://www.rossholme.co.uk/country-holidays/accommodation.html Sleeps about 18, has an amazing kitchen with a huge table and two small rooms with open fires (we spent the entire time in the kitchen). It's a really lovely, higgley-piggedly type house with loads of space - and it's not perfect, so you aren't terrified of making a mess or dropping a glass. It is in the middle of nowhere though - there is an old man's pub at the end of the road, which does okish grub (and had 3 customers when we all rocked up for dinner on the Saturday night). Anyway, we loved it! And it's cheap as chips - cost us ?700 for two nights.

In which case Keef, donate to the charity, not to the Big Issue seller. It's really not that complicated.

I've been a reader of the ED forum for years, but this is the first thread that's driven me to register and comment. Jeremy, perhaps you missed this bit on the website: The organisation is made up of two parts; a limited company which produces and distributes a magazine to a network of street vendors, and a registered charity which exists to help those vendors gain control of their lives by addressing the issues which have contributed to their homelessness. It's people like some of you lot that made me move to Nunhead...! And now I'm going back to reading in outraged silence.