Q. What do you care about?

A. Mum and dad, my life, pets.
Mum, brothers, Edward cos he's disabled (brain damaged)
Education - strong views…didn't want to go to school at first…No one listened.
Boys - who don't treat you as well as they should. Respect. They cant survive without women.
Lipstick - have not got enough - only about 30.
Services for young women - pampering things to make me feel good, like make up and shopping. Driving lessons, in school and free so we can get ourselves around and not have to rely on blokes.
Young travellers - helping non travellers know travellers way in Cyber Pilot - internet links with travellers, Video club on Tuesdays, documentary making, big brother spoof. Burgess Hill, Community House, Denham road…use computers , homework club.
Clean toilets in the town.
Speed runs in Denham Road, people come flying down really fast there have been kids hit in the past. People should take care of the road and have speed bumps.
More stuff for older young people, like youth shelters.

Q. What's it like being a young traveller?

A. S'alright.
If your brothers ask you to do something, you have to do it, even if they are younger than you.
You have to ask their permission to do things, like go out with a boy, (if your dad has passed away).
I don't get call names as I'll crack em if they do.
It's not very nice - if you want to see your mates even for 5 mins, you have to beg your mum or brothers - what they say goes.
It's hard - one of my brothers - just like my dad. A travellers funeral is different - you don't bury them then go to the pub. You have their body home in a coffin for 7 days and 6 nights and then on the 7th day you open the lid and say your good byes, shut the lid, bury them and then thousands of travellers come from everywhere and we go home to the trailers and we burn the trailer and smash all the cups people drank out of then burn the sofas people were sitting on, get all the clothes, take them home and look after them til the day the mum dies, and move out of the area. You have to start all over again - it's not easy being a traveller.

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