Sunday, 10 April 2016

ad integrum salutis lacte

In my best pigeon Latin, I dedicate today's blog to the uncertainties of an unbroken line (in terms of fidelity) on a family tree.
I'm a third cousin to someone who was quite a well known celebrity and I always wondered how tenuous that link could be, that all it would have taken was one affair or 'moment' to sever a branch on the tree. I find out from DNA that the line wasn't broken that way, so it is the nearest to knowing that we are actually related.
The pigeon Latin actually means uncorrupted by the milkman (according to Google Translate, anyway).
(No source for this pic of the late, great Benny Hill)

(*With apologies for stereotyping milkmen everywhere) 


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