St patty's gone bust

St Patty’s Day has been a total bust. Wandered thru town all day today trying to find either Guinness, Baileys, or green cupcakes. Barring those, looked for green icing (or white icing plus green food colouring) but also to no avail. Very sad… Finally found Guinness at an “Everything British” store, but were 3EUR a bottle and as I don’t even like Guinness, there was no way I was gonna pay that! It was nice, however, to speak with a British shopkeeper. In many ways I feel like I do in stores in Montreal – apologetic for being English. In Montreal this anglophone guilt is lessened by the fact that I can and do speak French, but here, I feel personal guilt of English cultural domination and wish to exempt myself from any claim to linguistic manifest destiny… Surely only a Canadian could be so apologetic.