Gypsies thoughts

I was having a think, while doing this project the gypsies do come up in conversations and as part of the work is about the end of the british holidays, the decline in fairgrounds, and even though I do not like arcades and the brashness of the fairground it is a shame that this is part of british history that is disappearing.

Since the program Big Fat Gypsy Wedding the families are in the spot light and I wonder if this has helped us understand thier ways or if it has just tapped the wedge in a little deeper.  In my pre children days (BC Before Children)  I used to love moving around, I lived in many towns and worked in pubs and resturants I enjoyed meeting new people and exploring new places, maybe this was down to part of my heritage, my mother has traveller blood in her fathers side of the family, they were showmen travelling around with fairgrounds to all the fairs, my daughter has done part of the family tree, children were registared all over the country.
When I was little ( under two) we lived in a caravan while waiting to move into the house my parents still live in, it over looked the canal at Fradley and I loved to watch the barges and wave to all the people as they went by, I wanted a boat and wanted to be nomadic.

Reading comments about the program is really quite upsetting, I dont think people really understand that the gypies are a different culture, and have been isolated and not just by choice but by preducdice aswell. So they now have opened their doors to the world, to some serious negativity.  The girls are slagged off for the way they dress, even though they are virgins when they are get married and how many people can say that they were, they arent allowed to be alone with their boyfriends they are all shaparoned, so they shouldnt be judged by the length of the skirts.

end of part one.........