[svxistentialist]

Straying back on topic to St Patrick's day, we have had the best weather this year for the Feast Day for absolutely years, and it has remained beautiful all this week.

This was a great boon to all those performers in the parades all over the country. There is a wonderful tradition here of marching bands and school bands and pipe and jazz bands from the USA returning to various Irish towns, particularly Dublin, year after year.

Long may it continue. They come here rain or shine, and when the weather is not so good, they still march and play and smile just like it was tropical here.

Keep coming, keep playing and keep smiling folks. Great ambassadors for their country and their people.