Amazing Aurora Borealis photo from NASA
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"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Beautiful picture - green as well
TtN this morning did celebrate St.Patrick's day - nice "Irish" pieces indeed
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... that was sort of my point!Originally posted by Roehre View Postgreen as well
(or rather the point of NASA who posted the picture to honour St Pat.)
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Great photo. And what with it being St Patrick's Day, the colour is sort of fitting
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Originally posted by Beef Oven! View PostGreat photo. And what with it being St Patrick's Day, the colour is sort of fitting
Here's something else that's "sort of fitting"....
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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This is more fitting...........................
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A happy St Patrick's day to all lovers of the Emerald Isle.
My favourite Irish singalong, I think .
Oh the Green and Red of Mayo
I can see it still
It's soft and craggy bogland
It's tall majestic hills
Where the ocean kisses Ireland
And the waves carress it's shore
Oh the feeling it came over me
To stay forever more
Forever more
From it's rolling coastal waters
I can see Croagh Patrick's peak
Where one Sunday every Summer
The pilgrims climb the reek
Where Saint Patrick in it's solitude
Looked down across Clew Bay
And With a ringing of his bell
Called the faithful there to pray
There to pray
Oh take me to Clare Island
The home of Granuaile
It's waters harbour fishes
From the herring to the whale
And now I must depart it
And reality is plain
May the time not pass so slowly
Before I set sail again
Set sail again
The Green and Red of Mayo
I can see it still
It's soft and craggy bogland
It's tall majestic hills
Where the ocean kisses Ireland
And the waves carress it's shore
The feeling it came over me
To stay forever more
Forever moreI will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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A happy St Patrick's day to you all, even if your not Irish! (have we any here?)Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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Essential Classics, on the other hand, offered the theme tune to the John Wayne film about Ian Duncan Smith ("One of my favourite films" RC helpfully told the world). One of those "Doy-di-diddle-y, dye-di-do" efforts; about as Irish as a croissant.Originally posted by Roehre View PostTtN this morning did celebrate St.Patrick's day - nice "Irish" pieces indeed
25% of me felt St Patronized![FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Those green streaks in the photo are actually the snakes being driven out of the Emerald Isle.
my wife's family hails from County Clare, and emigrated around the time of the Potato Famine. Keep this in mind when my Brother In Law tells this joke:
How do you know that God gave 1 more brain cell to an Irishman than to a horse? Because the Irishman knows not to s*** on the sidewak during the St. Patty's Day Parade.Comment
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Would have been nice to hear a John Kinsella symphony on the radio.
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Not at all Irish AFAIK, but I believe I own a slice of the Emerald isle. A bundle of fee farm rents from a town in Donegal which when last collected c1970 for my stepmother yielded something less than £20.Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
Per annum
Still, I intend some day to saunter up that street and announce to the world that I own a slice of it. It'll be difficult now even to identify which buildings I have rights over cos all I have is a list of the occupiers' names, and in some cases occupations, some 40 years ago without any house names or numbers. Still, one house seems to have been knocked down to make way for a council car park so I can definitely go after them
I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!Comment
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