The feast day of Saint Brigid is celebrated on February 1st every year. This is traditionally seen as the first day of spring in Ireland. This is because they don't understand the distinctions between the seasons. Weather here involves tiny, almost imperceptable fluctuations in 1. cold, wet and windy or 2. colder, wetter and gale force wind. Foliage, another sign of the changing season across the rest of the world, is of little help to the inhabitants of this oceanic rock, as there are hardly any trees (having all been cut down through the ages to build ships for the British).
In conclusion - I'm cold.
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