a l l y  wrote:

> "The Traveller"  wrote in message
> news:NZQye.58522$Fe7.193275@news000.worldonline.dk...
>>>
> Hmm. I only wish I was related to them, rather than just through some
> in-laws. Wonderful, exciting race of people to be connected with.
>
> ally


Hmmmm. Well me gurt uncle Tommy sold out in the end and bought Airedale
House near Skipton. His brother, me gurt uncle Charlie wouldn't leave the
tradition and lived in his caravan in the grounds wi' his wife 'til the day
he died. Never set foot in the house. After that Tommy's lads bought a
terrace in Sutton and the girls wed outside the clan. Aunty Jinny drank and
smoked hersel' to death at 100 and summat and that were the end of that. No
relatives have any inclination anymore. I feel a little nostalgic when I see
the tinkers about but times was 'ard when we were kids. Couldn't go back....
Fond mem'ries of snuggling up between me gran and gramps in the van when I
was little but even they ended up taking on a smallholding and 2-roomed
cottage.... Fickle!

Kez. . .