Stormy Weather

[amateur51]

It's not Spring yet, whatever the calendar says. Murky and damp in Kent. I must make myself get on with the ever present household jobs. Ugh, my mother would be shocked at my laziness.

Happy St Patrick's Day to you, salymap & all other Stormy Weatherites!

How shall you be a-celebrating?

Here in Brent, it's a Big Event with a marchette to Willesden Library.

I was thinking of having a celebratory lunch of sardines on toast, but then I've always indulged in high living

[Serial_Apologist]

Two unemployed Irishmen, walking home from the pub one night through a wood, spot a notice, which says, "Tree Fellers Wanted". One turns to the other, and says, "I tink we'd better go back and fetch Murphy".

[Serial_Apologist]

No Irishness in my blood, as far as I know. I shall be "celebrating" St Pairdraig at the Vortex in picturesque Dalston this eve, with Louis Moholo-Moholo's band, made up of British and African musicians. No Irish.

Moholo-Moholo? Apparently when Louis went back to his native South Africa, to live there permanently for the first time since going into exile following the Sharpeville Massacre in '63 (?), he discovered that there were now so many Moholos in his neighbourhood that he decided to change his name by doubling up the surname to avoid confusion.

S-A

[Osborn]

A walker watches an Irishman digging a line of holes in a field. Another Irishmam takes the shovel and carefully fills them in. He asks what they're doing:

"Oim number one and dig holes - he's number three and fills them in"
"Is there a number two?
"Begorrah there is! He puts the trees in the holes but is at Cheltenham this week!"

[marthe]

Irish jokes! I'd never heard any Irish jokes until I lived in England. In the US we have Polish (or Italian or Portuguese) jokes...but no Irish jokes!

[salymap]

Good Morning Stormyweatherites and thank you for St Patrick's day good wishes, although, as far as I know I am boring old English with [maybe] a touch of Welsh far back.
Dark and dreary with a hint of rain later. Keep shovelling, all in Scotland and the North, hope it warms up for us all soon. Think Red Nose rubbish should be cancelled/postponed with all the dreadful news still from Japan. Am going to catch up on TV now.

[Chris Newman]

This one is true.

When I was a kid, about 1954, a near neighbour of mine was called Paddy and was, believe it or not, Irish. He was a labourer in the building trade.

One day on the way to school with friends. We glanced into a field where several houses were about to be built. Several trenches for foundations were partly filled with rubble, whilts around stood heaps of sand and ballast, bags of cement under a tarpaulin and as yet no bricks. In the centre of the field stood a stand-pipe with a tap on the top. By it stood the only sign of human life: Paddy.

In his hand Paddy held an empty bucket which he set in the grass under the tap. He turned on the tap. Water spluttered then rushed out. It missed the bucket and ran away in the grass.

We assumed that Paddy would move the bucket so that the water squirted into it, but no, he knew a better method. Removing his cap, he scratched his head and studied the problem carefully. Suddenly, he firmly grasped the stand-pipe and bent it until the water fell into the bucket. Problem solved, he wiped his hands on his dungarees and rolled a cigarette while water continued to overflow into the grass.

[BBMmk2]

Ah St Paddy's Day. Well, I know for a fact, that I have Irish blood and Scottish too! Best of both!

[Mahlerei]

Been a dreary old day but sunny skies predicted for tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

[salymap]

Morning all,I hope too that it will be a sunny day. I'm off for breakfast, cup of tea anyone? Just looked at users' list. 7 or 8 guests and me. Too lonely here,bye

[antongould]

Looks like another lovely day here to follow yesterday's smasher and a Saturday too! Sorry I wasn't around at 06.13 salymap I was up though my grandson saw to that!

[amateur51]

Triffic morning here in NW2 - very bright and sunny AND dry!

Just filled up the bird feeders, kettle's on and I'll be settling down soon for what I hope will be an excellent BAL

Happy days!

[Serial_Apologist]

Chatted with the Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's, who just happens to be Irish. Asked him if he'd celebrated St Pat's, and he said "No. Oh - wait a bit - yes. Dyed me hair green, dyed the dog green and we went up Trafangar Square. And what will you be doing on a lovely day like this, then?" "Oh, I intend to cycle out to the country", I replied. "And what country would that be?", he came back, quick as a flash.

[marthe]

Lovely day here, even though England was thrashed by Ireland in 6 Nations rugby. I saw two lawns covered with tiny crocus (crocuses? crocii?) during my morning walk. The garden is comng alive bit by bit and the bulbs I planted last autumn are beginning to poke out of the ground...including my future blue bell wood!

[salymap]

Morning all.
Lots of bluebell leaves but no flowers yet. Daffodils and narcissi are flat on the ground.
It's either foxes rolling on them or heavy frosts recently. Weather different every day. Is it the equinox tomorrow?