Well, I was half way through a post about March 17th. Then I found a blog-type article waaayyy better than anything I could manage. It’s by Divine Caroline and here’s the link http://www.divinecaroline.com/life-etc/culture-causes/dublin-st-patrick%E2%80%99s-day-maybe-not
Have a read and then cast your vote in the poll. I’ve always wanted a go at one of these. Your vote remains anonymous, I think… You can guess my vote 🙂
I’m gonna get legless! But, instead of hitting someone, I’ll probably just hit my elbow and my knee on different things.
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Umm yes, I don’t see you as a cup of tea girl when there’s a party on. Watch out for them inflatable green hammers 🙂
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And a happy St. Paddy’s Sunday to you, too, Roy.
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Thank you Deb. If I venture in to town it will be with my best Sam the Eagle disapproving face on 🙂
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Ha! My daughter wants me to paint her face with the Irish flag … oi.
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I’m afraid I haven’t yet managed to channel my inner Irish, and I don’t like beer. It will be tea for me, but not “proper” tea like you folks across the pond drink (only herbal and rooibos for me).
I hope you enjoy the day, though. But I’m curious: is it possible St. Paddy’s will be a more sober affair this year with it falling on a Sunday?
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Janna, the Irish won’t let a little thing like Sunday stop them drinking. In Ireland itself they have two bites this year with Monday being a holiday in lieu.
I’ve never tried rooibos, though I gallantly suffer several cups of green tea per morning at work.
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we made blueberry muffins, because why not? You can get blueberries anywhere these days! And we are having stew tonight (veg, not Irish, but close). The Irish whisky is finished so maybe a single malt. Overall, pretty bad job of it this year!
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Hi Roy, clicked on that link to Devine Caroline you posted, have to say agree wholeheartedly with her: Patricks day here, in the city centre at least is generally a nightmare of insane crowds, awful junk food, bad weather, heavy drinking, plastic gimmick paddywackery, puke and chaos. Even in simple selfish economic terms, I’d say it has become a total liability: for every visitor that somehow enjoys it, there must be 20 that vow never to return! It’s become a national embarrassment, to be honest. Her alternative Patricks day schedule (Walk in Howth, Croke Park finals and fish super in Sandymount) is a far, far superior idea.
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Thanks Arran – I increasingly get the feeling that I’m not just a lone misery guts over this. I lived in Dublin through a couple of March 17s and I was aghast. The Garda Siochana dread the day. The genie is out of the bottle now though and it will continue ad infinitum.
Here in Jersey I had a pleasant enough few pints – in a quiet bar from where we could hear an Irish band in the pub next door where it was jammers with Guinness hats, green inflatable hammers etc – best of both worlds 🙂
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I sipped a few Guinness and just sat back and watched the craziness. At the pub, there were green and orange balloon hats popping up all over the place and people dressed as leprechauns.
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The craziness is fine, though it’s still not for me. It’s just that it all has to be done with extreme amounts of alcohol which can be downright offensive. To be fair, like you I managed to steer a middle course and listened to the music over a quiet beer. Thanks for reading and commenting 🙂
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