It´s so weird. You´re "just around the corner" but here you hear nothing of St Patrick´s Day! Hope you had some green fun (they really were red at first?).
Thanks, Jan and Jan! It was so quiet again this year--Christmas-level quiet. It's so not what St Paddy's Day is usually like, but here's hoping next year parades and celebrations will be back on Main Streets all over the country :-)
Iris--I suppose it's a bigger thing in countries with large numbers of people from the various Irish diasporas. In the US, corned beef and cabbage and green beer are a St Patrick's Day tradition, but that's not actually Irish (except for the cabbage)--no corned beef in the shops and Guinness is too dark to dye green! :-) I have to defer to leprechaun experts about the former love of red, which now I think of it, would make them more like Christmas gnomes or julenissen or something! I was never in Ireland until we moved here, so I'm learning as I go! :-)
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I love the photos, poem and music! I feel very thankful that I have some Irish in me!
It's a wonderful place to live! 🍀☘️🌈🇮🇪
Happy St. Patty's Day Shri and Bill.
Thank you for his fun a beautiful post 🍀 🌈 🍀
Oh Shari, what a wonderful post this is.
I enlarged all of the photographs and they are such fun.
Really enjoyed the music too.
I hope you and Bill have had a very enjoyable St Patricks Day.
My good wishes.
All the best Jan
It´s so weird. You´re "just around the corner" but here you hear nothing of St Patrick´s Day! Hope you had some green fun (they really were red at first?).
Thanks, Jan and Jan! It was so quiet again this year--Christmas-level quiet. It's so not what St Paddy's Day is usually like, but here's hoping next year parades and celebrations will be back on Main Streets all over the country :-)
Iris--I suppose it's a bigger thing in countries with large numbers of people from the various Irish diasporas. In the US, corned beef and cabbage and green beer are a St Patrick's Day tradition, but that's not actually Irish (except for the cabbage)--no corned beef in the shops and Guinness is too dark to dye green! :-) I have to defer to leprechaun experts about the former love of red, which now I think of it, would make them more like Christmas gnomes or julenissen or something! I was never in Ireland until we moved here, so I'm learning as I go! :-)
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