Welcome to my first ever hosting of a blogging carnival.
I hope you will enjoy your visit here.
Even if you have no obvious connection with Ireland, as the sign about the Guiness Museum in Dublin says
Growing up here in Northern Ireland, I never really celebrated the day. We did not get the day off school unless our school happened to be in the Rugby School’s Cup Final.
I hate to dissilusin you, but I first heard about
- wearing green to avoid being pinched
- eating corned beef and cabbage
- having leprechauns playing tricks and turning the milk green
all here in blog-land since I started blogging. I think all the leprechauns are too busy playing tricks in the rest of the world to have time to do anything here! I don’t know of anyone here who does these things.
The only corned beef here is a cheep (and in my opinion – nasty) tinned meat which I would never serve to anyone. I have seen some delicious recipes on-line for an altogether different dish, which I would love to try some time. I did serve cabbage with our roast chicken dinner last night!
However last year I went with my husband and son into Belfast to see the St Patrick’s Day carnival, and that is my plan for today as well. Pics of the parade will follow.
Last week on my blog I posted a photo of 3 types of northern irish bread and asked if you knew what they were.
They were
Soda Bread (Leanne has a great recipe here). This is lovely with butter and raspberry jam, toasted with melted cheddar cheese, or fried and part of an Ulster Fry
Potato Bread. A very unique taste and texture (but in a good way!) and no Ulster Fry is complete without it.
Wheaten Bread. Lovely served with a bowl of vegetable broth. I will ask my Mum for her recipe and share it on my blog soon.
In the mean time I hope you will join in the fun. If you have a blog, and write a post about any way in which you celebrate, or don’t celebrate (!) St Patrick’s Day which includes a link back to this blog, then please add it to Mr Linky below.
A few wee rules
1. Family friendly posts only please
2. Link to the specific St Patrick’s Day post, not just to your blog. Please mention my carnival and link back to my master list here. (Empty links will be deleted).
3. Have fun.
Mr Linky will be up until Saturday 21st.
Prize winners will be chosen at random and announced on Sunday. To win leave a comment, telling me what you do to celebrate St Patricks Day, or just if you don’t. Those who join in with Mr Linky get an additional entry (but no need to comment twice),
The prizes – updated – now 12 prizes in total
- A $15 voucher for Katie Hadfield’s Digital Scrapbooking Store at The Lily-Pad (I love her doodles)
- A personalised necklace from The Vintage Pearl (visit her store – she has many gorgeous items)
- 2 linen glass clothes
- a linen scrim
- 3 irish books – Irish Baking, Irish Sayings, Celtic Blessings
- an irish linen hanky
So are you ready?
Enjoy!
In like Flynn…
Count me in, please! 🙂
I subscribed too!
I have put a button on my blog.
I am a very happy subscriber already!!
I can feel my great, great grandparents smiling down on me. They were named Gollaher and from Ireland.
Alrighty, I have posted all about the fun!
Who does not love a carnival? I think it’s a great way to create some fun at a dreary time of the year. I’m sorry I did not visit earlier – I went to town for a change.
I’m not sure I’ll be able to join in your carnival but I will enjjoy following along!
What a generous carnivall!!! Good luck with everything!
Many blessigns-
Amanda
Great idea!
Lovely!! Good Luck with everything!
Great idea for a carnival!
I’ve answered a few of your questions today on the domestic fringe. Thanks for asking!
-FringeGirl
good luck!
Sounds like tons of fun, JanMary! Good luck!
great idea, good luck
Just put up the button over at my site.
Also, already subscribe to your RSS 🙂
Oh, that sounds like a lot of fun!!
https://allaboutmeandabagofchips.typepad.com/
I have managed to put your button onto my blog. I am amazed I was able to do it. Count me in. I am really looking forward to the blogging carnival. It will be my first one!
Someone told me that there’s a carnival going on (with an Irish accent, no less!) and whenever there’s a carnival, there’s usually hot, fatty food and usually, whenever there’s hot, fatty food, there’s me.
But St. Patty’s day falls on a Tuesday and I usually don’t post on Tuesdays so I don’t know if I can participate in a blogging sense, but I’ll put your cute little button on my sidebar!
Count me in please! Thank You for letting me know about this blog 🙂 It is awesome! ♥ Hugs 🙂
This sounds like so much fun!
And, for more honors, I’m passing 2 awards on to you…..just go to my blog!
This sounds like fun.
This sounds like fun. I can’t figure out if I’ve left quite enough comments. But, I have posted about this carnival and linked back here.
top o’the mornin’…
Well, I was raised by an Irish grandmother who was from County Sligo, Ireland. She imigrated here in 1921. I got to see where she was from when I travelled there in 1977. I don’t do anything special for St. Patrick’s day, though. My grandmother used to like to have corned beef and cabbage (did you know corned beef is called that because is has pepper corns on it?). Anyway, yesterday I made myself a long kelly green skirt!
THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED.
WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED LATER TODAY.
I have an Irish freebie on my blog today 🙂
https://robin-giftsyoucanfeelgoodabout.blogspot.com/
button on blog-check:)
Hi there JanMary,
I came across your blog through another’s. I am just new to this whole affair but smiled when I saw you were from my homeland! I like you never celebrated St Patrick’s Day growing up in Bally money. Now we live in America(all the details on my blog)and celebrate it every year!Your page made me reminisce and miss ‘fadge’ and a ‘soda farl’. Thanks for the memories…
This is a fun carnival! Thanks for letting me come too – Paula from Idaho
https://bucketideasforgrandmas.blogspot.com/
Okay, number one is done! Button added to my sidebar!
Number 2 is done, subscribed to your blog! Now, I won’t miss them updates!
And here’s the link for my post!
https://purplefromtheheart.blogspot.com/2009/03/neat-blog.html
Now, this one has nothing to do with the contest,…
thanks so much for letting me know about this.
I love the new layout and design.
I love all the posts I read going forward to page 3.
You are so talented.
I love the little Blogging Carnival button.
Can’t wait to see the pictures of the parade.
I’m so glad you didn’t forget about me!
Hope you had a wonderful day in Ireland! ♥