Scottish travellers have their own culture and communities. The family inquestion were MacDonalds and proud of their name, they originated from Tiree and have travelled all over Scotland as hired farmhands and other hired hand work as Ronnie well described. Hawkers, travellers, tattie howkers were all people who were prepared to move where the work was. Some were Bond slaves sleeping in fields, end of the byre, washing in cow troughs they were also travellers.
The travelling family would never allow any teenage daughters to get pregnant for a house, who never had 5 different fathers to their children as a career.Their sons never left a trail of fatherless children, because their morals and family values would never have let them.
The children are cheeky, brash, wild, fit and healthy,steal the sugar out your tea and then try and sell you it back to you but respectful to their parents and community.
I don,t like the mess they leave nobody does, they don,t pay much tax if any. Are they the only ones!.
I thought the best message came from the old grandfather in the programme. "Even we get suspicious and have an opinion if we see something strange within our midst, we are always the stranger. It takes understanding on both sides and we all should be more open minded."
Everybody is welcome to their opinion on Scottish travellers, to me they are free spirits that leave a wee mess at times. There are different types of travelling communities, its getting harder for them as the common land is being stolen by the local
Authorities.
phil