so I was totally wrong about the Ides of March, I think that I thought it was March 7th, but a cursory scroll through the wonderment that is Google, yields the truth... Ides of March = 3/15

oops

From the Romans to the Irish with Asterix inbetween, today is the green goddess drunk fest known as St. Patricks day.
Shades of green
puce
puke
vermillion
chartruce
forest
emerald
sea green
that seventies shade of avocado
mint green

green beer green which I will assiduously avoid.

We are going to Claude, and I am thinking that tiny bubbles are in order, as it still very, very hot, but who the hell needs a reason to drink champagne.

so as an advance warning, I amy need to write a bubble induced screed later on...