all the same?

[Norman Atkinson]

I am in the middle of 'doing' the family history and have got to English- decent Roman Wall stuff which was built and maintained by the ---French.
I have got to Ireland and they went to--- Scotland. Confusing though it is, they changed their name in the midst of raising a family from Paton to Pattinson. My father's side is predictable except for one hiccup. There is tiny little village and one or two families called Atkinson. One of the later family's progeny is someone called Rowan Sebastian Atkinson.

My wife's is even more bizarre as it contains such names as 'Big Ears' and the lovely Camilla and - if you are still with me, Alice in Wonderland.

I have missed the Welsh out but in the 'tree' I did work out roughly when I must have been conceived. If timings are reasonable, it was North Wales.

Like Malcolm- I rest my suitcase.

Norm

[speedy]

No need, the term United Kingdom is an oxymoron and is purely a political term.
The true title is English as we hate all the other bastards.
The Scots we kept out by building Hadrian's wall in AD122 and hopefully if we get a lottery grant it will be rebuilt using imported Polish labour from the EC.
The Irish we ignore as no one can understand a word they say and if you could it's of no matter as they lie anyway.

Lastly there was no such thing as a Welshman until a Scotsman had illicit sex with a sheep.

The views of this post are not always politically correct but are shared by most Englishmen..

Meanwhile the Englishman was having licit sex at the other end

[Alistair Hosie]

Not before putting some lipstick and eyeshadow on the beautiful creature er girlAlistair