BS: happy st. patrick's day

Subject: BS: happy st. patrick's day
From: mg
Date: 17 Mar 20 - 06:59 PM

it's a great day for the irish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvxYXxLQ3l0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvxYXxLQ3l0

Subject: RE: BS: happy st. patrick's day
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Mar 20 - 09:20 PM

You are a fount of cruel and unusual punishment in light of recent events.

Guinness today is giving a half million bucks to help Irish communities struck by the outbreak.

Subject: RE: BS: happy st. patrick's day
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Mar 20 - 11:19 PM

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit!

Subject: RE: BS: happy st. patrick's day
From: mg
Date: 18 Mar 20 - 01:50 AM

likewise. i was planning to be in ireland right now and then off to spain. a little bit in kerry..dunquin and dingle..and more in galway and county offaly near clonmacnoise. glad i cancelled when i did. i was worried about getting stuck more than getting sick. i know your wife's family was near where mine was.

Subject: RE: BS: happy st. patrick's day
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 18 Mar 20 - 05:21 AM

Great - when is it !!!
No sign of it yestyerday here in the home of traditional music in the West of Ireland
Mind you, 'Talking Pictures' is always a good second best - love those b&w films where even the Americans speak proper English :-)
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: happy st. patrick's day
From: Jack Campin
Date: 18 Mar 20 - 06:01 AM

If like me you are self-isolating with partner and cats, it makes a lot more sense to think of 17 March as St Gertrude's Day.

https://www.catster.com/lifestyle/st-gertrude-patron-saint-of-cats-history-prayer-patricks-day

Subject: RE: BS: happy st. patrick's day
From: mg
Date: 19 Mar 20 - 02:02 AM

I think today the 18th in us is St. Urho ?'s day..Finns made him up I think. Tomorrow is feast of st. joseph, very important in italy. same day the swallows return to Capistrono.

Subject: RE: BS: happy st. patrick's day
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Mar 23 - 08:42 AM

It's three years on,
and most of us don't have to isolate any more.
Happy St Patrick's Day to one and all.

Subject: RE: BS: happy st. patrick's day
From: Mrrzy
Date: 17 Mar 23 - 10:04 AM

Slainte!

Subject: RE: BS: happy st. patrick's day
From: leeneia
Date: 17 Mar 23 - 11:03 AM

Outbreak of what?

Subject: RE: BS: happy st. patrick's day
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Mar 23 - 11:18 AM

Hooray!
It's the comeback of Patty O'Cher.

Subject: RE: BS: happy st. patrick's day
From: leeneia
Date: 18 Mar 23 - 01:15 AM

My band is meeting this Sunday,and we'll be marking the occasion by playing Irish music. Since we are an early-music group, I'm including Carolan pieces, since he's eighteenth century. Today I wrote an easy harmony part and a bass part for Eleanor Plunkett.

O Give Me Your Hand is even earlier, so I believe we'll do that too, but with no easy parts. The beginners will just have to tough it out.

After quite a few mild days, the weather demons turned on us and sent a cold and snowy day for the St. Patrick's Day parade. So my neighborhood, which is the traditional place for drinking green beer after the parade, was calm today. I bet the police department is thanking the angels for that.

Every year I wonder why the Parade Committee can't honor a saint whose day is in May or late September, when the weather's nice. Maybe the police are against it.

Subject: RE: BS: happy st. patrick's day
From: Stanron
Date: 18 Mar 23 - 03:15 AM

Hi Leeneia. Why not invent your own? If not a Saints day then something like May Day or Midsummer's day. Both days are celebrated here in the UK.

Subject: RE: BS: happy st. patrick's day
From: leeneia
Date: 20 Mar 23 - 11:43 AM

That would be a good idea, Stanron. Well, it would be a good idea for the nice people who enter the parade and who watch it happily. But for the drunks and the rowdies, maybe we better hope for bad weather.

On a happier theme, my band had a great time doing Irish music yesterday.   We did two Carolan tunes (Eleanor Plunkett and Abigail Judge), Cill Chaise, and the Dancing Master. We spend a lot of time on each piece. First we get to know how it goes, then we master the harmony parts, then somebody walks in and has to catch up, then we play it because it sounds really good and we enjoy it.