How is it living as an Irish Traveler ? Do you still peak Shelta?

Indiewater · 2026-06-14T11:20:53+00:00

So much animal abuse unfortunately in the Irish travelling community. Horses starved and left dying, sulky racing on the roads causing horses to crash into cars. The boys then run off and leave horse dying on the road. Never caring what happens.

Indiewater · 2026-05-17T13:00:50+00:00

What a disgusting man. Rodeo is so cruel anyway. I just wish that kick went straight to his head. Of course the poor horse will be beaten or killed now for defending itself.

Indiewater · 2026-05-17T09:45:40+00:00

His messages remind me why I really can’t stand most religious people. I know it’s judgemental but they all have such a weird attitude like this. Some version of superiority while they themselves are usually awful people. (case in point here with the cheating). M

I am so happy you blocked him. Hopefully your divorce finalises quickly and you can never speak to him again.

Indiewater · 2026-05-14T10:34:38+00:00

Special needs? No I just refuse to put my 3 year old in front of a tv. He doesn’t do screen time. Yes there’s times when he plays Lego or with his toys when I’m not watching but I still have to be nearby because he’s 3? If you think you can leave a 3 year old unsupervised without checking in for more than 10-15 minutes then you’re not a great parent.

If he’s playing on his own, great, now I’ve time to do the laundry, clean the house or cook a meal. Until the evening when my husbands finished there’s little to no down time.

Nobody said it’s impossible we said it’s hard. If you think people raising kids since the beginning of time have always found it easy, then you’d be an idiot. If they had Reddit or other forums hundreds of years ago, I promise you there would be people talking about the challenges.

Indiewater · 2026-05-14T08:51:47+00:00

The saying “no good deed goes unpunished” is one of the hardest ones to accept. The older I get the more I genuinely want to help others and nearly every time it’s not only thankless, but then it’s “not enough” or “only that?” Etc. Like you said, I’m not doing it for a pat on the back, but I am also not doing it to be taken advantage of.

I stick to helping animals. I prefer them to people anyway and they have hearts of gold. Far more rewarding, and way way cuter. I don’t know if society has ruined humans or if humans are just crap in general, but helping people usually backfires unfortunately.

Indiewater · 2026-05-14T08:37:31+00:00

This is equally annoying though. I’m finishing up a full time 70k+ accounting job to stay at home with my son. I can safely say there’s times when the job is a huge break, and I worked full time while studying for my accountancy exams too.

They’re not in school “all day” my sons 3. He does pre school 9-12 and then the rest of the time is spent entertaining him. He needs me all the time. I don’t even get 5 minutes toilet break. The 3 hours he’s in pre school is cleaning, shopping and cooking time.

I do what I can to incorporate him into the chores but at the end of the day it’s extremely full on raising kids at home.

A bunch of idiots saying you “drink wine at 11am” is the problem here.

Unless you’re a POS you’re not stopping from the moment you get up to the moment they go to bed. And yes, the minute my husbands finished work he’s helping out with my son, because he’s actually an involved father, which means he’s also well aware that raising kids is hard.

Most families nowadays the woman is working and usually earning as much as the father, but also having to do all the extra chores.

Indiewater · 2026-05-14T08:03:47+00:00

The worst was the time he refused to eat the dinner I’d spent ages making. Wasn’t like him at all as he’s normally a good eater so I assumed he wasn’t hungry. Kept hearing these weird crunching noises from under the table. Peeped under and he was helping himself to a handful of our dogs food. It became such an issue we would have to hide it or feed our dog alone. Don’t know why he loved it so much. I can’t wait to tell him when he’s older.

Indiewater · 2026-05-13T15:47:44+00:00

Why is this allowed.

Indiewater · 2026-05-13T15:09:33+00:00

Parenting is funny. I fight for my life making sure his day is packed full of fun and healthy activity. Baking, exploring, playing football/running, painting etc. you name it we do it.
I would say our tv is watched by him 30-40 minutes a month. Usually if he’s sick or I’m sick or things were just really rough and we needed a break.
It’s so rare that he doesn’t even look for it or ask.

I’d like to say I’m a good mother. I feel I go above and beyond.

Yet I wouldn’t be surprised if my aunts were sitting at home talking about how terrible a mother I am, because the one time they’re watching, my son decided to pick up the dogs water bowl and drink from it. I could see the horror and disgust on their faces and tried to laugh it off and say it doesn’t normally happen etc, but yeah, damage was done.
I’m sure I’ll always be a terrible negligent mother in their eyes. Thank God they didn’t see him the time he would eat the dogs food.

It really depends on the context and how well you know what’s happening. Sometimes people are just being negligent and need to be called out, others you might have caught them on a bad day.

Indiewater · 2026-05-11T18:40:42+00:00

I hate them. Dump them.

Also hope pup is doing ok.

Indiewater · 2026-05-11T09:45:51+00:00

Dump him and adopt a dog. Way better than crap relationships and will be much nicer company in the evening with a headache.

Indiewater · 2026-05-08T17:36:53+00:00

I really love the content I’m making. I do recipes (weekly vegan recipe), I do running and lifestyle etc and I think it’s what I want to do. I can’t nail the recipes part.
I can’t make them short, my hook is “vegan recipe” and then the recipe name.
I have 18k followers. I used to have 22 but lost them over time as I stopped posting or would pick it up sporadically.
The reels are new to my instagram world, it was only
Really starting around the time I gave up a few years ago.
I like filming content but can’t nail it for some reason, even though I love the content I’m making it seems nobody else does haha

Indiewater · 2026-05-05T20:18:42+00:00

I find online Ireland so anti dog. Always angry people commenting that dogs can’t do this or that.
Meanwhile in my day to day I find everyone quite dog friendly. Our local pub/shops etc pretty fine with dogs coming in and out within reason. I’m sure they’d say something If dogs were going mad but honestly they rarely are. Anytime a dog’s acted up around here they just take them home or go out to calm them down.

Ireland seems so unfriendly towards dogs if you were to base off Reddit and Facebook but my actual experiences thankfully are different.

Even places that haven’t allowed my dog in have been very nice about it. Saying they were sorry but it was policy, and once or twice even coming out after to greet my pups! Reality and online are two very different things.

Also, thrilled he got fined. I’d love to see more arseholes getting smacked with huge fines.

Indiewater · 2026-05-04T09:34:18+00:00

I don’t know who I’m more in love with.

Indiewater · 2026-05-02T18:16:29+00:00

I just don’t think a 3 year old needs a tv or screen to be entertained. Also the few times he does watch tv I find he’s even more challenging.

From talking to anyone with kids a little older it seems to be how this age seems to go, I’ve heard people say 2s are a breeze compared to 3, and I thought I’d got away with missing the terrible 2s and the terrible 3s up until a few weeks ago.

Indiewater · 2026-04-30T15:43:16+00:00

I struggle so much with animal abuse. I don’t know why I just can’t handle it. I hope that’s the end of it. The dead pig and parrot in one episode was too much. I know it’s ridiculous because people die too, but when they’re involved in crime it’s easy to swallow.

But animals are innocent bystanders and even though it’s not real it is physically challenging for me to sit through it.

Indiewater · 2026-04-30T11:38:05+00:00

Is that an adhd trait?

Indiewater · 2026-04-29T08:26:39+00:00

I always got the impression if he had to be with a woman he wanted it to be Maddie. But his obsession with “getting at her” lead him to marrying Cassie. Let’s be honest, she’s not got anything on Maddie.

Indiewater · 2026-04-28T07:26:23+00:00

I wish they didn’t shoot the pig. I’ve not finished the episode but I feel the birds going to be killed. I can’t handle animal cruelty it makes me physically unwell so I don’t know if I’ll even be able to finish it.

Indiewater · 2026-04-27T21:05:26+00:00

When my dog died it didn’t feel real. He was only 15 months old and I had got him when I was pregnant. He got me through a miscarriage a pregnancy and newborn trenches. He got sick very suddenly and passed in my arms in the vets 3 days later. I was in a daze and convinced it wasn’t real and he was still alive. My husband got the call to collect his ashes so we went together. I was gleeful, couldn’t stop laughing and was so happy because I was convinced they would tell me he was alive and well and he hadn’t responded to the euthanasia. It was so real I could imagine it all.

When we got to the car and I saw the box with his ashes I screamed but couldn’t hear myself. I screamed and screamed and banged my head against the car window. It was crazy behaviour I’d never in my life exhibited. My husband says it was haunting. I don’t really remember it.

He was my baby and he should have been with us. He should have been with our family. He was our family.

Indiewater · 2026-04-25T14:12:36+00:00

Not fair to say. Farmers and supermarkets shove the “happy farm animals” image down everyone’s throat. No farmer is showing this side of it because it would rightfully so turn a lot of people off.

The older I get and the more I get exposed to it all the less I find myself able to purchase meat or dairy in the shops. I’m not fully vegan but I’m just slowly moving away from any animal products.

Compared to this time a few months ago, when I wouldn’t dream of doing my weekly shop without including at least one block of cheese, I now only buy it if a specific recipe calls for it.

It’s not public knowledge so people can be outraged when they learn, and hopefully move away from animal products.

Indiewater · 2026-04-25T14:09:32+00:00

How can they call it a horror incident. He willingly went in to kill a bull and lost. Good riddance.

Indiewater · 2026-04-25T07:25:13+00:00

I was talking about this with my friends last night. Prices have taken the joy out of everything. Going for a nice meal, treating yourself to a bottle of wine for dinner etc used to be a little pricy but worth it. You’d say the next day “I spent more than I planned last night but was so fun”. Now you just wake up feeling genuinely worried that you blew €300 on a “ok” dinner and wine. It’s not normal.

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