Despite what they seem to think themselves, I would say that the Irish are a very optimistic people.
It's almost like a joke:
Q: How do we know the Irish are optimists?
A: Just look at all the umbrellas on a windy day.
Today is a case in point. It's Ireland and it's November, so of course it's windy. It's not cold and I personally find it pretty pleasant. Every day like this, I must pass about 20 bins into which passersby have stuffed their poor umbrellas, which are all inside-out and mangled because of the wind.
Guys, this is a northern European country near the Atlantic. Is it maybe time to give up on umbrellas and get, like, a hat?
So I think it says a lot about how optimistic people really are here. Despite experience, they keep right on buying umbrellas.
Last night I went to see A Christmas Carol at Cineworld on the grounds that it's the most Gothic of Dickens' novels and therefore it was almost work. It's a Disney production so I wasn't prepared for how freakin' SCARY it was. There were kids to the left of me, kids to the right of me, but I was the one with her face in her hands, worrying about getting to sleep after the show...
On the way home, I called to Lidl. Gotta love that place. I bought a huge bag of onions for about 20 cents which, tonight, I'm going to attempt to turn into French Onion Soup. How difficult can it be?
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They are at last making sturdy umbrellas, with nylon rods instead of flimsy bent-metal ribs. I got one in Roches Stores.
Hats blow away, unless they're beanies. For cycling I have two hats: a winter black sheepskin one with flaps for my ears, and a summer green floppy one with a rope to go under my chin. In summer a brim, however small, is essential, but it will make the hat lift off at speed unless you fold up the front and back of the brim as a spoiler.
Hello again, Recumbentman. I had no idea hat-wearing could be such a complicated science! ;-)
Where I come from, a hat is absolutely essential in the winter. It can get down to minus 50 with the windchill. So we wear pretty serious hats! I love the Irish tweed caps but I guess they are maybe more a countryside thing.
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