The Lemon Drop Kid

Equality for all, or none at all! I support animal rights and by extension human rights. A leg-up to those who favour progressive change. Like sucking lemons.

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Where does that say anything about being unmarried, I ask you?

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Where does that say anything about being unmarried, I ask you?

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It's been a day of having to debunk more myths. Someone suggested to me that the reason Gypsy Traveller children were stolen from their families, was on account of the parents being unmarried. Not the case. Part of a national policy.

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"If the parents refuse to settle, and persist in wandering with their children, the children to be committed to an industrial school, or placed under the care of a suitable guardian." (Administrative Machinery, s.24, Report of the Departmental Committee on Tinkers, 1918)

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Luckily, I have so much evidence to the contrary, that his gas will soon be at a peep...

[The Lemon Drop Kid @TheLemonDropKi2]

Luckily, I have so much evidence to the contrary, that his gas will soon be at a peep...

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Just received a letter from a clan chief - typical hysterical ramblings of self-denial - to the effect that people of my surname were not classed as 'Tinkers'. Odd, then, to say the least, that I should have been born into a 'Tinker Experiment'. Another one to deal with...

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"If the parents refuse to settle, and persist in wandering with their children, the children to be committed to an industrial school, or placed under the care of a suitable guardian." (Administrative Machinery, s.24, Report of the Departmental Committee on Tinkers, 1918)

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He needs to check out the section on 'tribal surnames' in every area in Scotland, based on the earliest Census results, contained in the appendices of 'The Scottish Traveller Report, 1895', published by Robert Dawson, Blackwell Press, Derbyshire, 2005. Honestly!

[The Lemon Drop Kid @TheLemonDropKi2]

He needs to check out the section on 'tribal surnames' in every area in Scotland, based on the earliest Census results, contained in the appendices of 'The Scottish Traveller Report, 1895', published by Robert Dawson, Blackwell Press, Derbyshire, 2005. Honestly!

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These people need to get a grip!

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These people need to get a grip!

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Reminded me of the aboriginal Scots tirade from a school of hysterical studies...

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Reminded me of the aboriginal Scots tirade from a school of hysterical studies...

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[The Lemon Drop Kid @TheLemonDropKi2]

Just received a letter from a clan chief - typical hysterical ramblings of self-denial - to the effect that people of my surname were not classed as 'Tinkers'. Odd, then, to say the least, that I should have been born into a 'Tinker Experiment'. Another one to deal with...

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Getting to the stage where I really couldn't care less what these people think...

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I was forced to point out that almost all couples I knew of had been married, albeit some weren't admitted to a church, due to the unwelcoming reception in some quarters...