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snaffled a tub of philley cheese and some sour apples from Sols

and a chilli sauce off Mu Beta

Mala is giving away the bacon so that's not snaffling

What's wrong with elderberry's fridge? It's got mangoes in it!

I don't like mangoes and they might have brain juice on them

You don't think her neighbour is a cabbage then?

burgered more like

and a movie?

I've been in the garden. Not sure what I'm doing with myy day, but have that feeling I should be doing something

What are you up to?

rock and roll me, *tucking myself up under a sheet* and getting some kip, hoping that my garden doesn't look too tatty tomorrow, it's not autumn yet

Did you manage do anything nice?

Over the last couple of days I have been feeling like there is something I really need to be doing but I don't know what it is or I'm missing something. It's been a little unsettling

Planted lettuces

Did you figure out what it was you felt you needed to be doing?

I had venison for dinner

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Sorry rudey word, edited version

mmm venison

I haven't yet figured out what I should be doing that I'm not, I've tried writing litle lists, things I need to do, things that I would ideally do, things I really should get around but might not, my things do seem to be pretty accountable for

the Gypsy thread is stinky poo*, but one thing I thank Twigs for is this thread

*anyone is welcome to lurk but I am going to qualify that comment by saying it is a general one, made in my personal space in a personal conversation, it is also not one specially aimed at Twigs *

Peanut

Good grief, did that get pulled?

Maybe we need a Winnie the Pooh theme for a while...

I did think that we were allowed to use the poo word that rhymes wth pitty

Not that I use it(here) that often

I don't know if this would be of interest to you, leaving it with no obligation

http://www.travellerstimes.org.uk/downloads/TravellersTimesOnlineFAQPack_09022009122802.pdf

or goggle

Jake Bowers, journalist, Traveller Times, Gypsies and Travellers: Their lifestyle, history and culture

Thanks, I just read that. Some of it is quite moving.

>>
“The mental age of the average adult Gypsy is thought to be about that of a child of ten.
Gypsies have never accomplished anything of great significance in writing, painting, musical composition, science or social organisation. Quarrelsome, quick to anger or laughter, they are
unthinkingly but not deliberately cruel. Loving bright colours, they are ostentatious and
boastful, but lack bravery.” Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1954.


This “fact” in the Encyclopaedia Britannica was printed Ten years after thousands of Gypsy
men died fighting for this country in the Second World War.
<<



I found Hoo and SWL's telling me I knew nothing because I live on the other side of the world interesting. There are so many parallels in that FAQ with what Maori have experienced here. That's why I recognise the patterns without know the specifics so well.

I do have to say though, that while the hatred that some Brits have for gypsies is known even all the way over here, I hadn't realised that it was to such a degree. I'm having trouble believing what I am reading (not because I don't think it's true, but because it's so appalling bad).

Peanut

Just been reading up on the Battle of the Beanfield (and vids). Now *that's* something I hadn't heard of before.

and a

eggy bread?