Oh, you are Clarebannerman? Great channel! Thank you for your kind words. I miss Ireland!🇮🇪

Okay, I'll take it. Are you in Scotland? Ever run into a banjo player by the name of Maurice, about our age, travels around in a camper van? I have met him in Ennis a couple of times.

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Oh, I will! I will! (How lovely)

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Thank you. Yes, I have fun. Thanks for watching my little video diary. ❤

Jim, thank you, as always. I follow several KZfaq photographers who do a lot of landscape photography in Scotland. It looks beautiful there, but as far as landscape photography goes, like Ireland, it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Maybe I will get to Scotland someday. I met a banjo player in Ennis who comes over from Scotland in his camper van. Yes, I'm afraid the Vineyard and Cape Cod and Nantucket are quite dreary this time of year. We don't real get green for another month. Then the busy tourist season comes upon us and it's like being shot out of a cannon. Yes, I get many visitors off the street from Ireland during the summer who see the flag and come on in. Sometimes I hand them an instrument and we have a little impromptu Session right on the porch.

Hey, guys, I am home. It's basically the same here - gray misty skies, but the grass is brown and the houses are all grey shingles or white. Very dreary. How I miss the colorful houses and the green grass in Ireland. Can't wait to see you all again! Such a joy to play music with you and your talented teenagers! ♥️🎻

Thanks Sara, we are glad that you got home safe and sound! Many good wishes! 🎶

Yes, and you may have noticed that while I was discussing the weather I was laughing out loud. The funniest day was when I looked out my window and I saw that it was raining. I put on my rain gear. I walked down the stairs and out the door and the Sun was shining. I walked back up the stairs and took off my rain gear and walked back down the stairs and you guessed it, it was raining again. No problem. 😂

Add the best photos are taken on Gray and misty and rainy days, not when the sun is shining.

Thanks, Jim. Yep I've got more stuff coming down the pipeline. Stay tuned

Thank you, John

It's a good thing we don't go to Ireland for the weather!

Two great players.

Irish Bouzouki!!!!

That is an accordion and a mandolin (8 strings)

@@michaelkent1940 It is an bazouki, used in trad Irish music. Check out Bothy Band, De Dannan, Planxty etc. The Irish instrument had 4 sets of two like the mandolin as distinct from 3 sets of 2. You obviously are not familiar with Irish music 💚🤍🧡

Paudie is among the best...

Thank you, Jim.

Many thanks!

Haha. Next time, Jim. Thanks for watching❤

Haha. Sometimes Paudie complains that I'm too loud. 😁

@@sara505sings Ye there a lot of Hacksaw Harrys about but your playing is just fine.

Yes, I play at all these sessions. You'll hear me sing with my bouzouki at the very end.

Thanks, Bill. These recordings are from the sessions I play at when I'm over in county Clare. Hope all is well with you and your family. Coming home anytime soon?

It's a terrible system. The buses are too big for our small towns and narrow Island roads. They go too fast for the conditions, bullying bikes out of the way, they clog up traffic because they can't navigate corners, and many of them are empty. The VTA is a bully organization. Come sit on my porch and watch 30 of these monsters an hour zoom past my house and you will get the idea. The electric buses are even wider than the diesels. Public transit could be run much much better than this.

Thanks for looking!