Monday, February 6, 2023

Six Nations ? We have more than that.

 The six nations rugby competion has come round again and if we swapped those six nations around a bit, one of our family would always win!

We have English Irish and Scots and there might also be a Welsh, if you assume that Pritchard was really Ap Richard from across the Marches from Herefordshire.

We could leave in the French as family tradition suggests that there was a French grandmother somewhere but we can definitely include the Maltese, who could also have had Italian connections as the island is within sight of Sicily and there was constant traffic between the two. Then there are our German, Slovenian, and Czechoslovakian ancestors and if so minded we could throw in a couple of Aussies and Kiwis  into the mix as well.


Perhaps it is salutary to think in these times that these British Isles for centuries was more welcoming of migrants coming as refugees, fleeing appression than it is today. It seems that the only foreigners who are given the glad hand now are footballers coming to play for large sums of money for foreign owned "English" football clubs.  Ironic dont you think?