I was the "Guest"who said there was a difference between travellers and gypsies. Sorry about that, but I didn't realise I had been logged out.

There are very few gypsies in Scotland as far as I know. There has been some intermarriage over the years - that's only natural, with two peoples sharing a travelling tradition, but Thomas McCarthy would never call himself a gypsy, and I would never claim to be a gypsy either. Thomas and I have shared houses at Whitby over the last two years and have discussed this round the kitchen table on quite a few occasions.