I like to think of us as more Swaggies, wondering from town to town, camping by billabongs, not stealing sheep tho.
Hence the name on our van, stolen from a Slim Dusty song Mechanised Swaggies
elliemike said
12:20 PM Mar 9, 2015
Oh for Gods Sake. Will this mean we have to form Family Groups and have gatherings all over the country. Dancing, Singing, Getting drunk, looking for potential partners, Making a quid here and there.
Oh I suppose I can put up with that. But stealing Children is out (past dealing with kids) Dont mind lifting the odd chicken or rabbit. I am not into learning the evil eye stuff at this time of life so that is out.
I wonder will the wife mind, door to door selling of clothes pegs around the various towns !
Here are some Signs we need to get to know.
That one "Woman Willing To Give Money" is interesting ! I'll look out for the Triangle from now on, yer never know yer luck.
-- Edited by elliemike on Monday 9th of March 2015 01:42:47 PM
Goldfinger said
06:25 PM Mar 9, 2015
I think the common thread/bond that joins all Grey Nomads is our realisation that simple is best and complicated is a veritable PIA..... Car and Van or Motorhome....everything basically has its place....and if you're too complicated the "weight police" will get you and make you reduce a few heavy extras/ luxuries you work out you did not need anyway....no lawns to mow...no painting.....whats an electricity bill look like again?.....no waiting for the next perhaps expensive catastrophe by staying at home....we can choose who we want to be near, and disappear at will when we don't want to be found.....we all learn that trick real quick.....and you know if others want to be near you ,its genuine....no hidden agendas.....
Simple but functional clothing...who gives a damn so long as it is 'PRACTICAL'......our friends are invariably dressed similar, practically speaking.......how often at home in 'the old days' could you recommend the local Town's St Vinny's as being fantastic value and range....Grey Nomads all know what we mean.......status symbols are no longer important <if they ever were>.....sure someone will have a better rig....means a better awning to get our bums under.... If a Gypsy life is a "simple' life then call us Gypsies by all means.....how many enjoy a fire as much as we do, and a snag on bread with a bit of 'dead orse'..no front Bar beer ever tasted as satisfying as the beer you share sitting on a basic foldaway staring out to nowhere with friends you enjoy around you......and looking out over a Greens lake sunset....and ...and....Hoo Roo.
-- Edited by Goldfinger on Monday 9th of March 2015 06:28:53 PM
-- Edited by Goldfinger on Monday 9th of March 2015 06:34:24 PM
TropicalRose said
08:36 PM Mar 9, 2015
And don't forget being close to nature. So good for the soul and blood pressure.
madaboutled said
10:23 PM Mar 9, 2015
In the last 4 years we've got used to calling our Grey Nomads, but then are we (us not necessarily you) gypsie's or why can't we be both???
jules47 said
10:46 PM Mar 9, 2015
Goldfinger wrote:
I think the common thread/bond that joins all Grey Nomads is our realisation that simple is best and complicated is a veritable PIA..... Car and Van or Motorhome....everything basically has its place....and if you're too complicated the "weight police" will get you and make you reduce a few heavy extras/ luxuries you work out you did not need anyway....no lawns to mow...no painting.....whats an electricity bill look like again?.....no waiting for the next perhaps expensive catastrophe by staying at home....we can choose who we want to be near, and disappear at will when we don't want to be found.....we all learn that trick real quick.....and you know if others want to be near you ,its genuine....no hidden agendas.....
Simple but functional clothing...who gives a damn so long as it is 'PRACTICAL'......our friends are invariably dressed similar, practically speaking.......how often at home in 'the old days' could you recommend the local Town's St Vinny's as being fantastic value and range....Grey Nomads all know what we mean.......status symbols are no longer important <if they ever were>.....sure someone will have a better rig....means a better awning to get our bums under.... If a Gypsy life is a "simple' life then call us Gypsies by all means.....how many enjoy a fire as much as we do, and a snag on bread with a bit of 'dead orse'..no front Bar beer ever tasted as satisfying as the beer you share sitting on a basic foldaway staring out to nowhere with friends you enjoy around you......and looking out over a Greens lake sunset....and ...and....Hoo Roo.
-- Edited by Goldfinger on Monday 9th of March 2015 06:28:53 PM
-- Edited by Goldfinger on Monday 9th of March 2015 06:34:24 PM
Goldfinger - that has to be one of the best posts ever! Says it all - on the road you run into paupers, millionaires, and all manner of "nomads" in between - and we are all equal!!!!
Papou said
02:04 PM Mar 10, 2015
Modern Gypsie or Swaggy on Wheels best describes it :)..
madaboutled said
02:53 PM Mar 10, 2015
Papou wrote:
Modern Gypsie or Swaggy on Wheels best describes it :)..
I like the Swaggy on Wheels sounds more "strayliann"
Aus-Kiwi said
11:48 PM Mar 10, 2015
Staylianz in Our case .. Lol
aussie_paul said
12:41 AM Mar 11, 2015
I don't care what I am called as long as it is not late for "happy hour"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aussie Paul.
Dunmowin said
07:49 PM Mar 11, 2015
Wish people (not just this forum, I have had a go at Rivers, and a butcher on Australia Day) would stop calling our beautiful country "straylia" WE live in Australia. Don't ruin that with slang.
For hundreds if not thousands of years
People have been living a nomadic life style
Traveling the roads and byways making
A living where they can often catching
Much abuse in passing "Gypsies"
They mostly used horses for towing
Cause the car had not been invented
So are "Grey Nomads"regressing to
Early forms of lifestyle in a more
Affluent form of gypsie like behavior
Just a thought bin a quiet day
Hence the name on our van, stolen from a Slim Dusty song Mechanised Swaggies
Oh for Gods Sake. Will this mean we have to form Family Groups and have gatherings all over the country. Dancing, Singing, Getting drunk, looking for potential partners, Making a quid here and there.
Oh I suppose I can put up with that. But stealing Children is out (past dealing with kids) Dont mind lifting the odd chicken or rabbit. I am not into learning the evil eye stuff at this time of life so that is out.
I wonder will the wife mind, door to door selling of clothes pegs around the various towns !
Here are some Signs we need to get to know.
That one "Woman Willing To Give Money" is interesting ! I'll look out for the Triangle from now on, yer never know yer luck.
-- Edited by elliemike on Monday 9th of March 2015 01:42:47 PM
I think the common thread/bond that joins all Grey Nomads is our realisation that simple is best and complicated is a veritable PIA.....
Car and Van or Motorhome....everything basically has its place....and if you're too complicated the "weight police" will get you and make you reduce a few heavy extras/ luxuries you work out you did not need anyway....no lawns to mow...no painting.....whats an electricity bill look like again?.....no waiting for the next perhaps expensive catastrophe by staying at home....we can choose who we want to be near, and disappear at will when we don't want to be found.....we all learn that trick real quick.....and you know if others want to be near you ,its genuine....no hidden agendas.....
Simple but functional clothing...who gives a damn so long as it is 'PRACTICAL'......our friends are invariably dressed similar, practically speaking.......how often at home in 'the old days' could you recommend the local Town's St Vinny's as being fantastic value and range....Grey Nomads all know what we mean.......status symbols are no longer important <if they ever were>.....sure someone will have a better rig....means a better awning to get our bums under....
If a Gypsy life is a "simple' life then call us Gypsies by all means.....how many enjoy a fire as much as we do, and a snag on bread with a bit of 'dead orse'..no front Bar beer ever tasted as satisfying as the beer you share sitting on a basic foldaway staring out to nowhere with friends you enjoy around you......and looking out over a Greens lake sunset....and ...and....Hoo Roo.
-- Edited by Goldfinger on Monday 9th of March 2015 06:28:53 PM
-- Edited by Goldfinger on Monday 9th of March 2015 06:34:24 PM
In the last 4 years we've got used to calling our Grey Nomads, but then are we (us not necessarily you) gypsie's or why can't we be both???
Goldfinger - that has to be one of the best posts ever! Says it all - on the road you run into paupers, millionaires, and all manner of "nomads" in between - and we are all equal!!!!
I like the Swaggy on Wheels sounds more "strayliann"
I don't care what I am called as long as it is not late for "happy hour"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aussie Paul.
Wish people (not just this forum, I have had a go at Rivers, and a butcher on Australia Day) would stop calling our beautiful country "straylia" WE live in Australia. Don't ruin that with slang.