The Hippy Sharing, Tribal Living, New Age Traveller Thread.

Its my fav. Some people are into films and some TV shows. I just love Documentaries most. Has to be a subject that has some interest to me though.

 

I used to eye a new age traveller called Giles when I worked in the Reindeer ................and used to hang around with a fair few , I come from a rumoured ( as much of my life appears to be) travelling circus family.....................I love wooden gypsy caravans and well lots of off grid living type things and know a fair bit of folk law and other random bits of stuff which I gathered from my interest in self sufficiency but that's about all I can give...........just little bits of insights, I know about a lot of things but only a 'little' of those lots of things and most of that is probally wrong

 

Great bypass. Newbury was traffic hell before the bypass was built, so I'm glad they did it.

 

Yes, for about 5 minutes.
I have photographs somewhere, but they're obviously not digital.
It was very disappointing, it contained a low powered pa system, they all sang 'Oh Happy Day'
and the rest of it was trippy acid style graffiti, bean bags & scatter cushions!

 

Watch entire 3 parts of Motorway Documentary. Probably wont change your opinion but give you a great insight into the history of it all.
Part 1 will make you love it even more Part 2 will be an extension of that and Part 3 may give you some doubts. Really recommend watching all of them in order.

 

Sounds like an experience Not many can say that.

 

All sounds very interesting Row. Please do share anything at all, even if its wrong. Who's to say whats right anyways

 

as I find anything will post. Saw many an old face at a recent funeral of Smiler, he used to have a bus back in the day he and my husband used to squat on Argyle street (the Argyle Street Squats, Norwich ) @dean_butler , the history of that street may be of interest to you , in its 'better' times it had many a different walk of life live there. It was famous in Norfolk, however long gone now, and I never saw it ............

 

New age travellers - The "Peace" Convoy? Hmm. A bunch of thieving scallies pretending to be anarchists but still managing to sign on. Drive into a small village, create chaos and mayhem, nick anything and everything, clear the local shop, scrag someones chickens... and fight coppers of course.
The hardcore had numbers tattooed on their arses CC1, CC2 etc CC = Convoy Crazies. I knew a few of them, when I went to see them once they got petrol bombed - hardly surprising TBH but they were most put out.

 

I suppose I don't really regard it as 'history' having been around for the whole process. I used to drive down through Newbury a lot and it was a nightmare, so never had any sympathy for the anti road building brigade in this case or others (like Twyford Down, another bottleneck).

 

All I remember is the god awfull hangovers from green cider and specialist munchy inducing samosas. And being banned from Wiltshire unless you got on a service bus. Strange days.

 

It did use to be a pain in the backside and I only used it a couple of times a year. Glad I didn't live there before or during the building of the road.

 

New age travellers, I agree with Zed, they want to drop out and live off the land, they don't like society etc, but still want to sign on and take what society has to give but give nothing back.
Load of old tosh, Swampy and his cronies just wasted loads of money as they had nothing better to do, It is a great road, and has probably helped reduce pollution.

 

Woah, don't count me in with you on all counts. I'm a hippy and gladly see all roads dug up and people stop rushing around. Man. That's different from travelling around pillaging!

 

There is always good and bad with everything. I like to look at the good spirit and nomadic lifestyle with the right heart.

 

i too prefer to wash when i go camping all 'hippy' stylie. Maybe i'm getting old but the smell of feet and knob cheese really isn't necessary in 2013

 

classic

 

i seriously laughed out loud at "knob cheese" i know people overdo lol but i did.

 

i'm a fully fledged meatatarian and don't fully understand the whole vegan thing, but i'm intrigued, why do vegan's eat soap? I've heard that there are some quite tasty meals to be made out of beans and lettuce so why eat soap, unless you want to blow bubbles?

 

Theres many people who live on the road nomadicly honestly with out causing destruction or pillaging
Its just these people fall under the radar compared to the people who do travel and do wrong

Through the years many people used to travel according to the seasons and were helpers during harvest time or lambing or shearing time
Many had trades as wheelrights basket makers etc and made and sold there wears as they went along

Travveler brings about a whole different impression in peoples minds nowadays though