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Post by mouse on Mar 17, 2010 22:03:42 GMT
i am not irish so dont celebrate......but greetings on st pats to those that are
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Post by mikemarshall on Mar 17, 2010 23:26:25 GMT
i am not Irish either but as Lin's father is from Northern Ireland we celebrate both St Patrick's Day and the Battle of the Boyne (though I doubt if Trubble would appreciate the latter celebration!)
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Post by trubble on Mar 18, 2010 3:08:30 GMT
Er..mouse...you do NOT have to be Irish to celebrate. That's the one good thing about St Patrick's Day, in my opinion. Everyone is ''Irish'' for the day and why not? It can be a good laugh being ''Irish''. I don't usually bother much about it, mind you. I don't give a hoot what celebrations people want to use for an excuse for a party, Mike. It's all good. And I'm a bit of a mix of a Brit and a Paddy so it's all meaningless to me. I have some French ancestors so I choose to think that qualifies me to celebrate Bastille Day. My county town used to celebrate 4th July as if it was our own day, dunno why, but it used to be a good excuse to wave the stars and stripes at one of the Kennedys marching by. We had a Welsh poetry festival here one year, again, who knows why. I can't say that was intensely hilarious but more fun than the time I was stuck in a Surrey town for St George's Day. Just me and my kid, 2 Japanese Camera Clicking Tourists, and a bunch of miserable looking Morris Dancers. No one else in the town even paused to look. And despite forming half of their audience, they shunned me because I was Irish! Sad gits. One of the Morris Dancers told me I had my own festival of St Patrick (implying that I could move along now, nothing here for me...lol) The Northern Irish marching up and down, looking a bit mad in bowler hats and wearing Miss World orange sashes has never struck me as that much fun so I give it a miss -- but as my daughter was born on the 12th July, I am usually otherwise occupied. Hope you had a happy day, Anna!
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Post by beth on Mar 18, 2010 3:35:46 GMT
Anna, Mike, Mouse, Trubble . . . Hope you each had a happy - St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in this area with great enthusiasm. I am not Irish, but my 1st husband was, so my 2 older children have the bloodline and the look, as well. Mr B stopped on the way home this evening for cabbage, corned beef and a pitcher of green beer to go. Very nice.
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