[Dan from Michigan]

Interesting. My dad's side wern't tinkers. They were farmers in Cork, and then farmers(briefly) and railroaders in the US. Blue collar folk to this day(If not in employment, in attitude).

[shaggy eel]

,,, my grandfather was from Cong, north of Galway. He ran away to sea in 1876, when he was 14. He died in 1932 - I never met him. The appeal of being a tinker increases by the minute for me. I'm paying too much for everyone else's lifestyle in this taxation trap.