I was browsing with StumbleUpon this morning. Stumble is a web discovery tool that takes you randomly to sites according to your preferences.

Mine are focused on internet, politics and graphics, an odd mix you will agree. Anyhow, I was taken to the Official Seal Generator and 10 minutes later I had created my own.

A family has to start somewhere in creating its symbols. Imagine the ancient clansmen sitting around a peat fire on the edge of the bog saying they had to get their own crest because the McJones mongrels had one.

Better, I think, to have a risen sun than a hog’s head or mallet.

The phrase Is uaisle am breid na toll is Irish for “A patch is better than a hole.”