BS: Gypsy Caravans

Subject: RE: BS: Gypsy Caravans
From: GUEST,Bluesman
Date: 29 Aug 11 - 10:30 AM

Sorry chick, clearly you are unaware that no one owns a thread on mudcat, check with Max.

Subject: RE: BS: Gypsy Caravans
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 29 Aug 11 - 10:11 AM

Caravans of Love :0)

My pleasure, leeneia :0)

Subject: RE: BS: Gypsy Caravans
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 29 Aug 11 - 09:52 AM

Thanks for the links, Lizzie.

I know what you mean about the urge to have a simpler, slower life. But then I picture a motor vehicle hitting my caravan from behind, and I know the likelihood is so high and the results would be so terrible, that I give up the notion.

Subject: RE: BS: Gypsy Caravans
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 29 Aug 11 - 09:41 AM

Would you kindly take your nasty comments OUT of my thread.

And, for your information I used to pick BAG LOADS of rubbish in my little Dartmoor village every single week, you know, used nappies shoved into hedgerows, broken bottles, crisp and sweet wrappers, cigarette packets, fish and chip wrappers, cans..oh, and not forgetting the used condoms, of course, down in the alleyway by the ancient 14th century bridge, just a few yards from my house..

NONE of the people in my village were Travellers or Gypsies.


And now, if you don't mind, please shove your foul links up your backside.

Thank you.

Subject: RE: BS: Gypsy Caravans
From: GUEST,Bluesman
Date: 29 Aug 11 - 09:29 AM

Sometimes they leave their caravans when they move to another site.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article45563.ece

Subject: RE: BS: Gypsy Caravans
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 29 Aug 11 - 09:09 AM

I expected a thread about Vickers Trailers

Subject: RE: BS: Gypsy Caravans
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 29 Aug 11 - 09:01 AM

When I lived in Middlesex in the late forties and early fifties, every Spring, about March, a wonderful cavalcade of the traditional caravans pulled by stocky ponies would wind its way through my small town and stop in the woods nearby. There must have been about twenty or so, all painted in bright colours and designs. They let down little steps, and you could see shiny brass things inside. As children we'd go and watch, they didn't chase us away. I was enchanted. They'd come round the doors selling handmade clothes-pegs, it was just like a children's storybook scene. My mum used to offer the lady at the door any serviceable clothes such as a warm coat and my old wellies, always very gratefully received. They only stayed a week or so. Sadly, after about the late fifties, they never reappeared, but I always remembered them. (My mum was Irish and I think she felt a kinship with them!)

Subject: BS: Gypsy Caravans
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 29 Aug 11 - 08:24 AM

Maybe it was Roald Dahl who first planted the seed of longing inside my soul, having one of these for his children, in his garden...or maybe it's just the gypsy in my soul that sometimes longs for a life of travelling...

Just the other day there was an old man sat in the middle of a large roundabout on the way to Exeter, his wagon glistening in the afternoon sun, his old horse tethered safely beside him, both seemingly oblivious to the cars all around them..A simplicity of life that is dying before our very eyes...

I'd have swapped being a passenger in the car to have been sat beside him on his wagon...clipclopping along at a slow pace...aware of all the elements, hearing the birds...

Anyway, here are some lovely videos that I hope many will enjoy...

Folk Musician, Nick Dow on Restoring Gypsy Caravans

Nick singing Master McGarth - with photos of gypsy caravans