After visiting SPARC a few times I sat in with the Woman’s group the gardeners, the Arts and crafts and the music club the were all very interesting and I was beginning to get to know a few people. I then met a lady called Janet who was helping out one day, she was an retired mental health worker we got chatting and I told her about my final project she seemed very interested and invited me round to her house. I arrived at 12 as promised not knowing what to expect, when she let me in the first thing I noticed was the smell of male cats, there was also piles of different collections from jewellery to pots and pans and clothes hung up everywhere from doors and picture rails unbeknown to me I had been invited into a hoarders house. We sat down for a chat and Janet was interested in helping me with my project and was willing to collaborate with me if she could, I was more than happy to say yes, Janet was happy to tell me her story, without going to to much details she had been on a downward spiral for a few years and was willing to share her experience with me, after her divorce she started to drink she admits to being a functioning alcoholic, she had been a teacher and although she wasn’t in full time employment she was temping in different schools and enjoying her life until on night she drove home after a couple of drinks when a car collided with hers and wrote off her beloved ford focous when the police arrived they breathalysed her, she was over the limit and lost her licence. Without her car she could no longer teach and without out an income she soon got into financial problems and from then it has been all down hill. I asked her if she would be allow me to photograph her home and she agreed. I have made arrangements to call her later this week.