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Big Duke Six said:
Officially cancelled this year, yet travellers are on the move.
How's this going to play out then?
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They'll do whatever they want & the authorities will let them as usual. There will be complaints about lack of social distancing & maybe some window lickers banging pots & pans on their doorstep in protest at 7pm on Monday nights or some similar nonsense & then it will all be forgotten about when the media finds something else for them to be outraged about.
 
Daydream Believer said:
They'll do whatever they want & the authorities will let them as usual. There will be complaints about lack of social distancing & maybe some window lickers banging pots & pans on their doorstep in protest at 7pm on Monday nights or some similar nonsense & then it will all be forgotten about when the media finds something else for them to be outraged about.
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True this.
They're above the law.
I'd love the polis to prove me wrong.
Please.
 
Maxnormal said:
Bunch turned up on Rainton Meadows opposite Rainton Arena yesterday. Vans, flatbeds, caravans traditional and modern, and horses. Paths blocked, camp fires lit.
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There’s a permanent Gypsy camp just along the road from there. Passed it on Sunday morning while out on the bike. Don’t know that.
 
Corona ain’t gonna bother the gypos, impervious to all manner of germs.
Gonna be cracking for the locals like 😂
 
Kevj said:
There’s a permanent Gypsy camp just along the road from there. Passed it on Sunday morning while out on the bike. Don’t know that.
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There’s a showman’s guild (?) official site at along at grasmere which has been there for many, many years. That the one you mean?
 

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