one move.tv report

is this the world's best flooding blog?

The answer is no!

a property news web TV channel www.onemove.tv is worth taking a gander at as it will be referencing this now "infamous" blog!

we are becoming a very famous village!

more news on the media front. i suppose it is about stage 3 of the story now.

step1: the disaster - our case flood

step 2: the clean -up

step 3: the recovery - 3 months on and we are entering the third step of the media programme. The media in the form of channel 4 and a high quality magazine is coming to town or village in the next few weeks.

step 4: anniversaries - where are they now? 1 year, 2 year 10 year 100 year when I will be well gone and the internet will dominate the world in ways not really imaginable now.

Midlands Today feedback

the initial reactions for the afternoon pre-Midlands version is that it was a fair enough report and was made by the video footage of the flood itself. The camera and reporter were not in the faces of the villagers and even if there was a little helpful guidance in priming the questions Giles Latcham came over well to the interviewees.

the later version pushed the forgotten village storyline fairly hard but mentioned the key points that needed mentioning i.e. flood banks, clean up. Luckily, the photos from the blog were not used!

If you want to see it ask we have a copy on video and you will be able to see it at http://www.bbc.co.uk/midlandstoday/latest_stories/index.shtml for probably a few days.

Aerial shots of the flood can be seen at:http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/gloucestershire/realmedia/2007/07/helivid2307?size=16x9&bgc=C0C0C0&nbram=1&bbram=1

BBC Midlands Today

Giles Latcham, nice guy, was on the phone asking to come down to look at the village that someone had described as a "ghost village" to him. It is hard to describe a village of around 20 houses which gets visits from David Cameron, the Bishop of Gloucester, Archdeacon of Cheltenham, National head of the fire service (with 3 crews!) and still has a lot of activity going on (people toing and froing) as a ghost village. As the decision of where to live become clear there will be less and less activity but think 4 families have made the decision to live in mobile homes so it will hopefully never become a marie celeste village (or as someone put it, the village of the damned!!! a great pun which i can not claim credit for)

The sensibility of those in the village who have not recovered well and are still understandably raw is at forefront of reasons not to invite a camera crew down, but there again if it helps raise questions with relevant authorities (be it the local BC or EA) and gets things moving it could be of some use. There are still houses that have not had their Disaster Care in and if it allows people like Cynthia to get in the house then it is surely worth a little hassle. I am sure the BBC will be sympathetic and understanding to our cause. There are undboudtedly questions that do need answering. Tune into BBC Midlands Today on Wednesday night to see Brad and other villagers on TV.

diary - the telegraph

the man from the Telegraph arrived with photographer in tow. We have the South west representative who is exactly what you would expect from a Telegraph man - well spoken and dressed with a certain style that says Telegraph man. Nice guy, says all the right things. We try to palm him off to the more interesting Springett story who found out about their house being flooded when they were in holiday in Vancouver/ Alaska (sorry, not sure abou tthe story!) Hopefully, they will use the Lords as their story but the photographer, good guy, seem enamoured with capturing us cleaning up the piano which is wrecked or sitting on the TV drinking a cup of tea that had not seen tea for at least a couple of days! The camera never lies ... it just tells a story! He tells the story of Kate from BBC TV standing in Gloucester giving it large about how disaster the flood was when there were 4 streets in Gloucester left with water. Ever the battle between the forms of media. Simple rule, there is no media truth.

think we are probably seen the last of the media. The interesting story is those who really suffer in the long run due to insurance company intransigence or other government bodies getting in the way!