Ashes to ashes

Dust to dust.

Not many devout Catholics with the ash mark on their forehead to be found on the streets of Dun Laoghaire today. 

It has to be said that I barely managed to tear myself away from my Screen of Miseries for 25 short minutes, and that the weather was so appalling that most of the people around George's Street had hats and caps pullet down to their eyebrows.