tash (11:58 AM) :
hello, just done a mail out on new guidance / law re travellers. you want it? check your email is joehooker@btinternet.com
joehooker (11:59 AM) :
yes thanks
tash (11:59 AM) :
ok, just sent
joehooker (11:59 AM) :
I saw the BBCi news on it this morning!
tash (12:00 AM) :
right, will look at news24, just been sent press realease by home office
joehooker (12:00 AM) :
handy
tash (12:01 AM) :
forward it about, have just sent to 35 alt types, schnews, guilfin etc etc
joehooker (12:02 AM) :
will do, thanks alot Ive got plenty in my address book!
tash (12:02 AM) :
ok, did it arrive ok
joehooker (12:04 AM) :
Yes just in:-)
tash (12:04 AM) :
great, this is some of whats caused it, now…..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/news/062002/30/smetharpe.shtml
joehooker (12:07 AM) :
‘spose you seen this http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_2097000/2097667.stm
tash (12:07 AM) :
yes sir, that one of links, just sent you
tash (12:08 AM) :
youll notice the whole skit is about gypsies and dids etc, but the BBC site you just sent, shows pic of hippies 🙂 see what i mean …..
tash (12:14 AM) :
right, just been on news24, words talking about gypsies, pictures showing hippies. oh god! here we go again….
joehooker (12:15 AM) :
that Smeatharpe thing is such a shame, everyone who was there thought that it was a sensible place for a gathering. Takeing the pressure of Glastonbury and in being on a dissused airfield (hardly pressious land). Also there was a great atmosphere on site, lots of fun and no aggression. If the police had not blocked the roads as was the wish of the locals and land owners and councillors, there would have been nothing but good news to report. But that would have served no political purppous.
joehooker (12:15 AM) :
forgive spelling…
tash (12:18 AM) :
yep, i dunno what people are supposed to do. I was in favour 20years ago, of saying “ok then, we give up! we cant hack your uppression and opposition. Ok we’ll stopp doing this and ALL ask for accomodation, can you imagine. All this has nothing to do with provision of service or protection, all about future electabily, both sides of politics, play same game.
joehooker (12:21 AM) :
this counrty is not very good at “live and let live”. Im sure that the public and political atitude is not as intollerent in ‘some’ other European countries.
tash (12:23 AM) :
no better there, france and spain, both have new laws to do with parties, raving and stuff. some now coming back
joehooker (12:26 AM) :
you tend to get left alone more to park up in France, Spain and Portugal. although the authorities are becomeing increasingly more paranoid about the anarchist political element
joehooker (12:27 AM) :
and its easier to actuallt live on your own land
joehooker (12:28 AM) :
alot of english travellers have settled in Brittany, Orgiva – Spain, and all over Portugal
tash (12:28 AM) :
well, more space i suppose, same in ireland. ok for local national to carry on, thet just don’t want ours as well
joehooker (12:28 AM) :
definately a space issue
tash (12:28 AM) :
Orgiva, do you know people in orgiva?
joehooker (12:29 AM) :
I parked there years ago and new Andy and becky at Tablones and Davey Gravey.
joehooker (12:29 AM) :
Freinds from london are parked at El Morion and have kids in local schools
joehooker (12:30 AM) :
but I havnt been there for years, My bus nearly got washed away in the floods one year..
tash (12:30 AM) :
oh gosh, my son is SAM. he’ll be 21 now. hang out with desert storm folks and ?total resistance etc. wonder if you know him
joehooker (12:31 AM) :
Maybe, I used to travle with Totals. The name rings a bell but there are alot of Sam’s
tash (12:35 AM) :
I made ’em a website before the dragon event, wot he’s to do with. at http://members.fortunecity.com/alanlodge/orgiva/frameset.htm
