Edinburgh meeting / confirm numbers.

Brilliant! Mr soop has taken a lovely photo of us all! Thank you! And thank you to Bags for the brainwave!

L to R: The Lurker, Harrigran, Granny23, Moomin, Elegran, Soop, glass, marelli, grannylin, GillyB, Baubles, Bags, Gally, GA

That's a fabulous photo, thanks Bags. I can recognise a lot of you but please can we have a name check?

Brilliant idea Bags

Had a brainwave. I uploaded Mr Soop's picture of us all to my Flickr page

Ladies - again thank you for all your gifts of food and other lovely things ...... Someone brought a mug in a delightful box, but I have forgotten who. Could you PM me so I can thank you properly please, whoever you are. Oops
Hope Tech hurries up and sorts out the photos problem. Tomorrow it'll be old news and fish and chip wrappers

I've been trying for almost an hour...without success. I'm spitting tacks. Very annoyed and terribly frustrated. It's a lovely image. I shall return in the morning. Need to catch up with you all. Will try again before I log off.

Will try later when someone has woken Tech up.

An oops!

I'm not having any luck with it either. Keep getting and Oops! message.

I have had no success so far with uploading the group photo. I'm going to forward the image to Bags and see whether or not she can do better. In the meantime, I shall keep trying.

Back home from a delightful trip to dear Gally's home and the wonderful rowdy gathering with some marvellous GN member/friends. I almost lost my voice, what with shrieking with laughter and all that jazz.
Many thanks to Gally for being such a wonder woman...and a huge thanks to all my mates with whom I shared a memorable occasion.
The best group photo is about to be uploaded. Hope that you like it.

We have hedges everywhere in Devon, even in the airport carpark!They are probably toxic blackberries

Grannylin It was a pleasure to have such lovely guests.
Glad you got home eventually!! Where on earth had you parked your car? We don't have blackberries at our Airport car park

Home at last!Who is the twit who left her sidelights on in the airport carpark and had to call out the AA because her battery was totally flat!( very nice AA man though and picked a huge bag of blackberries while I was waiting)
Now the important stuff:
everyone was wonderful ...and I ate so much food.Thanks harrigran for your pink bubbly that helped loosen the tongues!
Gally runs the best B&B I've ever stayed in and deserves the biggest hug ever Thanks to GA for being my travel companian and for helping Gally and I sleep so well after her incredible stories

Thank you Gally, for a lovely day.

PS - Yesterday when we were talking about Frankie Howard's libido I could not remember the presenter I was reminded of. Remembered it last night, it was Julian Pettifer.

Aw Shucks GA it wos nuffing! It was lovely to have you and GL to stay.
I have been trying to upload/download a photo of the 'Edinburgh Gels' for the past 10 minutes but GN won't let me - naughty GN

Home again! The Wonderful Man surprised me by taking the day off work to collect me from the airport so I'm home a bit quicker than expected.
It was WONDERFUL (and incredibly surreal) to meet so many lovely Gransnet friends. Particular thanks to Gally for her hosting skills; I actually slept better than I have in a long time and Grannylin and I were very well looked after.

Why, when I want to use the laptop urgently, do I discover that MrB has played with it and it doesn't do what I want anymore and then I have to wait for him to sort it out!

Thanks to Gally for a wonderful time - you made us so welcome and I know that we all enjoyed ourselves and can't wait for the next meeting.

It took me, glass and moomin just under three hours to get home even with the Edinburgh traffic - pretty good going, I thought. Thanks to glass for driving yesterday. I think moomin saw parts of Northumberland she had never seen before and I certainly saw parts of Scotland I had never visited before.

It was so, so lovely to see everyone in the flesh - as I said at the time, the thing that surprised me most was how young everyone looked!

Can't wait to see everyone again!

Gally and ALL... seems like we have a lot to live up to in Brum...

Mr soop popped in when soop arrived, absent. He took some really good photos of us all in Gally's garden - well, more 'sensible' ones, anyway! The ones we took in Gally's house are a bit 'disorganised', if you know what I mean... soop will no doubt be putting them on as soon as she gets back today, I think.

P.s. Where are the photographs?

It sounds as if you all had a fabulous time with lots of lovely things to eat and drink. I'm glad you all enjoyed yourselves and hope to join you next time.

Good Morning 'Edinburgh' ladies. I hope you are all rested after such a wonderful day. Thank you for coming and for all the goodies you brought too. I shall be dining out for days . It was lovely to meet everyone at last and as Moomin and Glass say, let's do it again very soon. Just off to wake up GA and Grannylin as we have to leave for the airport in an hour and they are still snoring

This is a message for The Lurker. We cannot wait for the next meet up to 'talk' to you again so get posting pronto. That is an order!