Thanks from Ireland for all good wishes. Big celebrations here to make up for last 2 years! Grandchildren all dressed in green and going to parades. Will probably start "drowning the shamrock" shortly
I will be out celebrating tonight, I’m currently staying with my lovely Irish daughter in law and son in Cheshire, I am Irish but born here. It’s an extended holiday in Ireland, they are making up for Covid, I think the Guinness may run out!
I’ll wear green today too in memory of my dear Grandma who used to send bunches of shamrock for us to wear after we had moved over here.
It was my mother's cousin, who used to send it, Baubles in a little green box! I then wore a sprig to school, as a child. I mentioned on the GM thread, thatt a colleague used to hand it out in school, for those of Irish descent. We wore it like a badge of honour! ☘️
Happy St Patrick's Day! It brings back memories of celebrating the day at my Catholic primary school in the middle of Birmingham. Wearing shamrock distributed by the parish priest, going to mass and singing, Hail Glorious St Patrick dear Saint of our Isle. It never struck me as odd at the time. Admittedly there was a fair sized Irish population in the area but we also had children from India, Italy, Poland, Ukraine, Germany and Holland.
This is the first St. Patrick’s day since I discovered part of my roots are in Ireland. I had no inkling of that before. I’m off to look for something green to wear. Happy St. Patrick’s Day ☘️ to all.