On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:32:17 +0000, Sacha wrote:

However, on a visit to Normandy some years ago, a very chauvinistic
Frenchman practically adopted me because, among a crowd of English, I
was a Jersey woman and therefore almost Norman!

No almost about it, Sacha. When ever I'm asked in Britanny and Normandy
where I've come from I always add 'Normandie Libre' to 'Ilse de Jersey'
and it never fails to raise a smile. And I'm only an incomer

Whenever we have guests from England I point out to them that 'we' were
on the winning side in the battle of Hastings!