st patrick's day today. paper shamrocks all over the kitchens for a hall-wide celebration with food that is irish or green. it's also meant as a social mixer across floors, so each floor has a different kind of food. so, supposing if you wanted mint ice-cream, you go down to the second floor, where they are having "green (sweet)" and if you fancied, erm, i dunno, spinach pie? potatoes? you went to the first floor kitchen for "green savoury." i looked on the list and the fourth floor has got irish whiskey and bailey's down. i suppose we must be the beverages floor. wish we could swop with the sweets. tant pis.