im a traveller AMA

[TakeABreak2]

irish traveller ama

Is it a bit like going on holiday then? Do you have set places and routes you travel each year that you know will be friendly and you know the set up there?

elinorcadwalker
i do live in the countryside first shop is about 2 mile some younger boys hunt not much though
we use whatever medicine is needed
spanish dress is spanish clothes from a boutique
yeah i always bleach my cups

Doesn’t everyone bleach their cups then

dieantwords stealing of other travellers is uncommon but it does happen they sort it between themselfes

windbeneathmybingowings
we usually travel to places weve travelled to previous years yes

Op do you feel like you have a supportive community? I know when I got PND I felt really alone and I isolated myself from everyone, I slipped into a really severe depression and I stopped washing and cleaning my house. I guess with so many people around living in close quarters maybe that doesn’t happen as much in your community? Do all the women support each other or do you just keep to your own business?

Thanks that is interesting I wondered if it was like some Asian families (like our next door neighbours) when the DS marries his new wife sometimes lives with his family. There are 4 generations next door, in one house, grandparents, parents, DS and his wife and 2 boys

Thanks - Yes my BIL is a Murphy and he is lovely

awomanisanadultfemale
all women support each other we mind our own buisness but the men be gone in the day and women be on the site so become friends

For anyone interested, I just found the Instagram account 'Humanity is art' documenting Irish Travellers (though not sure which country they're in) to be fascinating.

OP, do you have many siblings?

i have 2 sisters and 1 brother all older

also anyone wanting to know why we dont go to the law this is a very good example of why
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WEg__f7VgZs
i know its long

Can you drive? Do you have a license?

Takeabreak2 Thank you for this thread! When I lived in Leeds my next door neighbour was a settled traveller, he grew up in one of the traditional horse drawn wooden carriages. When I was recovering from illness he made me rice pudding which he claimed was a secret recipe known only to travellers and carefully guarded!

My question - is this true or was he pulling my leg to cheer me up?

evilmorty
i can drive and i do have a liscence i passed my test as soon as i was 17 like most travellers

home made rice pudding is quite big with travellers maybe he had his own secret recipe because i didnt know it was secret lol

Are you taught by family or women instructors? Or male instructors but with chaperones?

evilmorty i was taugh in barnsley and all the travellers mostly use the same insutuctors in that area i was taught by a man without a chaperone ? the whole chaperone thing is a bit over exagurated... if a group of girls go off say for food and pictures there will usually be boys there and yes they will be keeping an eye on them but not litterally if a girl gets adked out she will be going with her boyfriend by her self 9 times out of 10 ...

but usually we learn when we are younger by family so dont need alot of lessons... i just teached my 12 yearold bil how to drive when we travelled in may he wont be on the road till his 17 though...

Thanks takeabreak2 secret or not it was one of the best things I've ever tasted (and I don't really like rice pudding )

lol glad you aproved hehe

@TakeABreak2 how do you teach someone under 17 to drive, before they're allowed a provisional licence? Do you just mean trundling a car around a car park?

bananafish on private land

I was driving round a field and on my family’s farm from around 11/12. It doesn’t teach you the rules of the road but it’s good to have practice handling a vehicle, knowing what sort of power they have, how easy it is to lose control etc. Which both me and my sister did. They were useful lessons to learn tbh. It means we got all the novelty of it out of us before we got into the road where we could have seriously hurt someone.

i know thats why we get lessons when we turn 17 but dont really need alot because we already know how to do the driving part

Have you seen the movie Trespass against us? Do you have families like that where you have to do as you're told by the head of the family eve if you don't want to?