No Place Like Home: The Walmsley Family

Tuesday 10 July 2007 8:00pm - 9:00pm on ITV1.

In the final edition of No Place Like Home, relocator Catherine Gee meets another ex-pat family who are disillusioned with their new lives abroad and face the dilemma of whether to return to the UK. It’s a momentous decision and their choice will have enormous consequences.

Cathy and Mick Walmsley left for New Zealand 17 years ago, taking their three sons, two dogs and a lorry full of possessions.

They now live in a house they’ve built themselves, on a large plot of woodland, with two more children and a menagerie of pets. However, 40-year-old Cathy can’t stop dreaming of Yorkshire. She has cronic homesickness and frequently pours over maps of the UK, watches videos of the Yorkshire dales and sneaks off to the British aisle of her local supermarket at any given opportunity.

Now Mick, 50, has had enough, and has asked relocator Catherine Gee to help. He wants Cathy to make a decision on where she’d like to live and stick to it.

The Walmsleys travel to the UK for their ten day fact finding mission with their two youngest children Harry, 13, and Lucy, 12. Their three older sons have already decided to stay put in New Zealand.

Catherine begins by taking them back to their home town of Bradford, but Cathy quickly discovers that the city is not quite as she remembers it but a surprise party for the family brings her homesickness floading back again.

For the second option, Catherine takes the Walmsleys to a county they had never previously considered; Nottinghamshire. Horse mad Lucy spends a day with an Olympic show-jumper and Cathy and Mick explore the peaceful town of Southall. However, half way through the ten day tour, Cathy receives a text from her sons in New Zealand that sends her into emotional turmoil.

Although they continue to investigate the possibility of a move back to the Aire Valley, as decision day looms Cathy faces an impossible choice – her beloved Yorkshire and the family and friends she left behind 17 years ago, or her grown up sons and grandchildren back in New Zealand?

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One Response to “No Place Like Home: The Walmsley Family”

  1. pam prestage Says:

    did anyone see the end of NO PLACE LIKE HOME on tuesday did she come back to live in england or stay in new zealand thanks

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