travellers
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 | tags: bus, euphemisms, Reading town |I am a traveller when commuting, most weekends, and for a couple of weeks in GREECE (Whoooooopieee!).
The word traveller is now used in the UK to describe people that take their home (caravan) with them when they move. It apears to include the older reference groups (Gypsies, Romanies, Tinkers) that I am more familiar with and may include newer groups that I am not familiar with.
Recently, in the spirit of travelling, I rode bus #20 around Lower Earley. For fun. I as able to sit above the driver at the front of the bus and wave at other local Reading people that I knew. I saw some camper-vans parked on the grass of Cintra park (formerly Sutton Seeds sports ground) with people picnicing outside. Get Reading reports that these are travellers that regularly stay in the Park every year, this year they arrived just before a fence as due to be errected with the specific intent of keeping them out. I wonder if they come to take full advantage of Jackson’s summer sale?
