big fat gypsy weddings

[lilyliz]

it's back on Tuesday at 9,this is when I wish I didn't live alone,when Iam sitting with my mouth open at this someone could be popping in a few maltesers

I'm sure in the last series one of the grooms had his face blurred as he worried his business would really suffer if people knew he was a traveller.

I did indeed Sue. I also used Tippex as nail varnish, ideal for writing boys names on.

The horses'll be lamed and useless by three if the ones in my experience are anything to go by. The times in my life I've been closest to physically hurting another human being have been to do with travellers and those ponies .
But that's just ime, not representative of the way everyone treats their animals I hope.

Upahil -the men usually say it's because they won't get work if they're known as travellers.

Fair enough on the work front OkayGrrl, hadn't thought of that

Perhaps the groom and the father of the bride were havi g a few um legal difficulties?

"On average there are ten times more driving fatalities within the Traveller community. At 22%, this represents the most common cause of death among Traveller males"

From Wiki pretty shocking eh?

UpHill I remember in the last series one of the grooms refused to have his face shown on telly as he feared it would affect his scrap metal business if people realised he was a traveller.

I think we have seen all we need to see about BFGWs now. Enough.

There's such a sad undercurrent to all of this - the prejudice against them, the control of women, domestic violence :(

I feel so uneasy when I think of the life ahead for these girls

Yes, me too Uphill :(

Perhaps because they get those high performance cars so young.
18th
Lot of young asian boys round here go the same way. they get given cars for their 18th birthdays.
I wouldnt trust my DS behind the wheel of a car at his age.

The thing Uphill is many of these women are the ones who keep the family together then, without them the men would be lost but it doesn't stop some men treating their women like rubbish.

My cousin had two children and would get the crap beaten out of her, especially if a man looked at her or she looked at a man who he didn't know he beat a friend of our families up for offering her a pizza slice, he cheated on her all the time then he brought back a std so she chucked all his stuff out of the caravan and burnt it. Maybe a bit extreme but she's well rid of him now and he's been turned out by most of their community.

Alot of traveller and gypsy men treat their partners with respect because they're the mother of their children but like all communities they're problems.

I live in cork, rathkeale is about an hour away. Many travellers don't pay for car insurance,sure how would the cops catch up with them anyway,they can just move on any time. While I'm sure many travellers are lovely people, many are involved in criminality,hence the large amounts of cash. There was even a 16 year old girl from a traveller family shot dead last week in Dublin, they were after her boyfriend and hit her by mistake. I am also confused about all the claims of cleanliness,their caravans may be clean but the sites are inevitably left in a complete state.how does that work? I really try not to be prejudiced against anyone,but they do make it very difficult as you only really see or hear about the negative elements.

The highlight of the programme for me was those girls in the pineapple/palm tree dresses.

"Mammy how do I get in the car?"
"With your legs you silly tart"

My highlight was the 12 YO Miami Vice boy with 100 or more girlfriends trying to get out of the hairdressers the wrong way.
DD had her confirmation later this year, we have been talking about whether she'll have a dress or something else. Looks like we'll be heading to either Thelma or Afflecks palace.

I'd suggest she does her confirmation in a palm tree dress, but I know it's important to be unique. So what about a parrot or a peacock, something nice and colourful?

I doubt Liverpool Cathedral will have seen anything like that Possibly Thelma could knock us up something in either primrose and blue or red and white. Those are the colours of our local rugby league club and DDs fave footie team.

I think that it is strange that at 9 years old they are all ready acting as if they are much older!!
I liked the cat dress but i liked her cakes better. and as the cake maker said i think it would be really funny people walking out with what they think is a bit of cake but is really not cake at all!!
they all have such long hair! and all so thick!! :) xxxx

just had a thought this morning - did they expain why Nan-girl's cousin was 12 and only doing her communion now? It's usually 8/9 isn't it?

Maybe she was away from her home parish? I've no idea, DD did hers when she was seven in Switzerland.
To keep it fair, all the children wore a porridge coloured monks thing.

I said to Dh that cat dress is the sort if thing I would have ended up wearing if I had worn one of the many wedding dressed I "designed" when I was about seven.

Im watching it now

Im sick of it to be honest. Im not even bothering with this series.

I liked the one they did about the Orthodox Jews living in Manchester. I thought that might turn into a series.

what was that one Brightness? Is it online?

Shucks missed it - does anyone know how to watch it online? < rubbish at puters>