Quote Originally Posted by bear@bearkilts.com
I had a St. Paddy's Day that was special to me. It was the St. Paddy's Day I'd been wanting to have for years.

I worked late on a kilt until everyone had gone to bed. Then I popped open a beer and sat down in front of the TV and put in a movie I'd been wanting to watch again for some ten years. Half way through the movie I got up, poured a couple of fingers of Bushmills, opened another beer and sat down to watch the rest.

The movie was The Quiet Man with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. It had been so long since I'd seen it that I'd forgotten much of it. I remembered the way it made me feel a decade ago and some of the highlights but there were all the little touches I'd forgotten. It was like seeing it for the first time. It is the closest thing to a perfect movie I've seen. It was also the movie that John Ford most wanted to make and was most happy with.

Maureen O'Hara in bare feet running on the Irish hills, her red hair as wild as the land itself, well she nearly stopped my heart.

All in all, a grand night. Peaceful and relaxing. I don't get nearly enough of either.

Erin go bragh
I had a similar night, Bear. I had had a particularly tiring day at work so crashed out in my kilt with a pint of Guinness. Watched a bit of TV, then started Philip Pullmans 'Northern lights' (the first book in the trilogy 'His Dark Materials'

I bought a video of The Quiet Man just a few weeks ago for my wife. She'd recently been on the 'location tour' and wanted to see the film. It's a good watch. She looked out for all the locations and I counted the kilts!

Al