Aerif
HRH Albha

AHA! I have found your secret! sneaky sneaky.

What can't you do on your account?

I'll pull some strings, though I inagine I won't need to pull very hard.

Oh you

Well, the Flag of the United Tribes has huge historical significance, and despite having a St George Cross, was actually chosen by Maori.

Poached information about the Flad of the United Tribes:

On 20 March 1834, 25 chiefs from the Far North and their followers gathered at Waitangi to choose a flag to represent New Zealand. The 'Flag of the United Tribes' was chosen as the flag and declared by James Busby to be the national flag of New Zealand. King William IV approved the flag, and a drawing of it was circulated through Admiralty with instructions to recognise it as New Zealand's flag. It became known as the Flag of the United Tribes of New Zealand in recognition of the title used by the same chiefs when they met again at Waitangi to sign the Declaration of Independence in 1835.

The flag has the red cross of St.George on a white background, with a smaller red St.George's cross in the top left hand corner on a blue background. The smaller cross had a wide black border and a white eight-pointed star featured in each of the blue quarters. The actual gazetted flag had the eight-pointed stars replaced with five-pointed stars and the black fimbriation returned to white. A further gazetted version had six-pointed stars. A still further variant was adopted as the house flag by Shaw, Savill and Albion, the shipping company. This version omitted the white fimbriation.

Our preference is for the original Flag of the United Tribes with the eight-pointed stars and black fimbriation - as a historical flag some people argue it has more relevance and distinction than the current blue ensign. While it is a traditional flag in its design it has huge historical relevance in the uniting of the Confederation of Chiefs, first in the flag and, then the following year in the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Of the colours, red has a strong basis in Maori symbolism yet forms the St.George cross, and the black fimbriation is very unusual in heraldry.

This is a popular suggestion:



As is this, the tino rangatiratanga flag (c. 1990), although is heavily politicised and often used to signify Maori self-determination (some would say separatism).



Also, how is Tunisia? Est-ce que tu apprends beaucoup de français ?

Nope, you're actually 320km closer!

map:

Idk about the flag. There are lots of options. Schools routinely run competitions for kids to design new ones. I think it would most likely be the Silver Fern. I could live with that, although I see it more as a sporting flag and I think there are more meaningful options.



I like the design of the United Tribes flag:



Although now that I consider it, it looks like Australia + England.

How are you lately?

I invested in a name change. I like it : )

Does Sir Aerif need love? I think about you often. Juuuuuust saying.

No, you didn't say anything about time. When you posted your journal, I of course took the bait and had to find out when you were leaving. Since I didn't know what time it was for you when you posted, I checked before making the guess.

Of course. The very notion would be absurd.

Sir, a question. Are you on twitter by any chance? I think totally randomly that you tweeted Cilla the other day haha.

But then think of the NZ and Aus flags?! Our backgrounds are that same shade of blue! Would they have to become white to match the new background? (Or maybe we can finally secede and get our own flag? Here's hoping.)

What would happen to the Union Jack were Scotland to secede? It would affect so many flags!

No, I've been assured that it's only a parody. I'll leave if it gets serious. Not my style.

Also. TAKE A PHOTO OF WHAT YOU SEE FROM YOUR WINDOW.

I figured I'd tell you that the last two entries in your journal are exactly the same. It happens from time to time with me as well.

Non, c'est vraiment plus bon que de mien... quel est très mal, parce que j'ai un test la semaine prochaine; nous devons parler en français pour cinq minutes -- une conversation :s