General Chat

Negative comments here because it's a travellers' church celebration.

Shortly, we will have a royal wedding with equal over-the-top dressing up.

In the first instance, the family foot the cost. In the second, the state (us) will settle the bill.

Even handed - what do you think?

As i understand it most of the cost of the wedding is being met by the Royal Family and Kate's family are giving a large amount too. The security costs will be met by the taxpayers, it's true, but not the whole amount.!

Fair enough.

Let's hope that British Airways' staff problems have been settled by then & the Underground unions decide not to strike on the auspicious day after all.

The last royal wedding was a very muted occasion.

I've had 'experience' of both travelling gipsies and 'settled' gipsies.
the travelling gipsies we met were in Dumfries and Galloway, in the late 1970's, where ex & I were renting a 'fairground' caravan on a site.
Travellers were welcome. The ones we met there - the young girls occasionally wore outlandish dresses, but the parent were very strict.
I had a tame female blackbird (not caged) who would come when I called.
I was feeding her one day when the children appeared and deliberately scared her. I shouted at them.
They ran back to their trailer and complained to their dad - who immediately asked what they had done. They told him. Next moment, the children were back, with their dad, apologising.
In revenge,they hit our trailer one morning. I told their dad, who made them apologise, and he explained that we were in a worse situation than them - we didn't own our trailer!! We became very close friends to that family - even met them at Appleby a few years later.

When I lived on the edge of the New Forest, a large part of the estate was occupied by gipsies who had been 'removed' from the New Forest.
When I first moved in, I had 'hassle' from 2 children. Realising they would 'go' for 'incomers'- and giorgios at that, I knew what I had to do.

By the time I lived there, they were 2nd generation 'settled' gipsies - many of the men well known and friends of my brother in law (but they didn't know I was his sister in law!).
My main problem with these 2 children was trying to get past their mothers - in whose eyes they did no wrong!! LOL
Their fathers all had jobs at Fawley refinery, so I had to time my complaint at the right time!! Once I had told their fathers, the problem stopped - even before I had admitted who my BIL was! (after which I was an honorary 'settled' traveller)
On - and apart from funerals (the 'matriarch' of the 'tribe' lived in my road - and died when I was there), there wasn't much ostentation, and the gorls were certainly not allowed to 'cavort'outside the house!!!

Which brings me to a moot point - we only hear the mothers/grandmothers speaking on this programme don't we?
Where are the men?
As they too are 'settled' travellers, I presume the men have 'normal' jobs.