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Buff Orpington wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 4:48 pm I'll see if I get any offers of a swap at the club but if I do need to sell I'll let you know.

Shahbahraz wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 4:04 pm Well there you go. Late blow-in selected. Thanks for that.

Dear old Georgie is about as multi-culti as it gets - Greek dad, Syrian mum, born in Palestine, buried in Israel; followed his dad into the the Roman army, and ended up in the Praetorian Guard, Canonised in 494, quite a favourite with Eastern Europeans due to the Orthodox Church, and patron saint of Greece, Portugal, Lithuania, Georgia (the ex-USSR one), Aragon, Catalonia, and Moscow. Also patron saint of soldiers, archers, butchers, boy scouts, lepers and plague victims. He even has a Muslim equivalent. (Still, not a patch on Ireland's patron saint - the only one in the world who is (a) a Brit (BritON, rather than BritISH of course) and (b) a kidnap victim.)

The dragon-slaying stuff comes from eastern Europe originally, although it does resemble a similar folk tale from Anglo-Saxon times, which predates any interest in Wales. He wasn't adopted as one of England's patron saints until the 14th Century, and only officially replaced Edward the Confessor in top spot in 1552, when Edward VI's contribution to the Reformation (apart from abolishing the fine English tradition of plain song - see Lucy Worsley) was to remove all but him from the list of English saints.

So the sort of immigrant that not even the BNP could object to really.

Unless he tried to cross the Channel in a motorised rubber dinghy, of course.

Whilst in possession of a mobile phone.
Might get a bit awkward with the lance.

Anyway, best leave that for now.

And claiming to be a load of women and children.....

FreddBloggs wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 4:48 pm So our next king is Boaty McBoatface, excellent.

The people have spoken.
Interesting constitutional nicety. EIIR is Queen of England but not Queen of Scotland. Up there she is Queen of the Scots. None of this Norman "I own everything " bollocks. The monarch has to ask if the people consent to his/her rule.
Of course any dissent can be resolved by the Hanoverian method.

True dat, and we're just being polite letting her be EIIR, as there wasn't a EIR in Scotland.

She's EIR, Queen of Australia...

Except for the desert, that belongs to Priscilla.