Christina Rossetti must have known Spaw - did she not write a beautiful poem 'who has seen the wind'?, just right for him.....

And since when has St Patrick had a whole week dedicated to him? It's bad enough with Guinness trying to get us to celebrate St Paddy's Eve..... it's impossible to get anywhere in central London today (parade in Trafalgar Square) and I bet poor old George goes past next month without even a mention on the radio, let alone having a tune named after him (Paddy's Vest was on telly this morning.... sorry, St Patrick's Breastplate - despite it being a Pentecost hymn and this being the middle of Lent... the same programe had 'the first Nowell' in it as well!), grumble grumble, whinge whinge....

LTS