green-croc_websize.jpgToday’s color is green. For those of you not in the know, it is the color of St Patrick’s day and TimeZoneOne. Everyone in the office has come to work wearing TimeZoneOne green Crocs adorned with four leaf clover and leprechaun jibbitz whilst indulging in some pantone 802 green colored Captain Cook Spruce Beer. St Patrick’s day has to be the most widely celebrated national day in the world, with Christchurch and Chicago both joining in the craic. Every year the Chicago river is died green to celebrate this Irish day, whilst all the Irish pubs in Christchurch dye the beer green. For the sake of authenticity, yes I am (a tiny bit) Irish. My great great grandparents were from Northern Ireland and I visited the ancestral home at Lough Muck, County Tyrone while on my OE (more on this kiwi tradition later this week). I didn’t have enough warning of my blogmastership to bring some of my own photos, but I did manage to find a slideshow posted by a fisherman of the Lough on youtube.
Rose ‘blogsaineolaí‘ Carson

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