Robert Burns' birthday

Snowing here again. Hope everyone has made it to Edinburgh safely. Thinking of you

Enjoy your Burns celebration grans wish I could be with you, but looking at the snow - er - maybe not! Take care and keep warm with a few wee drams

Happy Burns day!

HAPPY, happy, happy Burns day to one and all. Bags sent a text as she was travelling on the train. My consellation prize [for being unable to join the high-jinx] was to watch a cliff-hanger of a four hour match between Andy and Roger. When "our man" won...out came the dram. Oooh, it was lovely.
PS...much rain but no snow...

Hope you've all had a lovely afternoon. Thought about you all tucking in while we were on the Eurostar whizzing through France. Just arrived in Paris and settled into our lovely rooms. It's bitterly cold but, hey, we're going to have great time

You will Gally

Happy Burns night to all you Scots! Hope you`ve had a great afternoon at Elegran`s.

Just seen the weather forecast....LOTS of snow for Edinburgh?

I have visions of everyone having to budge up and bunk down there for the night!

Just back from Elegran's after having had a really lovely afternoon with lots of chat and laughter and food! Elegran had made us all so welcome and worked so hard to make Burns Day special for us. Thank you Elegran, and everyone else who joined us - Glass, Gillybob, Bags, Marsco (Lurkio), baubles, Granny23, Elizabeth1. What a fine bunch of women. .

So pleased you had a lovely day, Marelli with that fine bunch of women! . Good for Elegran

Well done, Elegran...you are a star!

Thanks to Elegran for today she made us all so welcome , the food and company were first class , thanks to everyone for a lovely day.

Oh, that sounds absolutely lovely! Good to hear you've had a happy time

I'd like to second everything Marelli said especially the thanks to Elegran for sharing her lovely house with us (and the house, within a house, within a house.

I got home just before 6, No snow in Edinburgh, quite a lot near Falkirk and none on Clackmannanshire Bridge - but then - the bypass was closed (I presume an accident) and I was directed uphill on a bendy country road which got worse and worse, over a foot of fresh snow, car skiting all over the place but thankfully nothing coming the other way. Anyway, I made it down hill and home OK through heavy rain. Felt quite proud of myself but Himself remarked how lucky I was that there was no snow. [humph] Good job he doesn't know the half of it

You missed a house, Granny23. It is a house within a house within a house within a house.

I've only just turned on the laptop to see what everyone else has been up to. It was so lovely to see everyone, and now I have enough food in the house to withstand a siege. (That is the house within which is a house, within which is a house, within which is a house.) You all brought so much with you. I just wish more people could have been there to help eat it all up.

Soop, we spoke about you (all nice things) so you were there in spirit. Everyone else who could not come, we will see you at the next meet-up. When will it be? Valentine's day? Easter?

Thanks again Elegran for your wonderful hospitality. It was such a pity that the Fifers and G23 had to take their leave a wee bit earlier than planned. How lovely it was to meet up with such fabulous wimmen again and to meet others for the first time.

Hope Glass Gillybob and Bags got home without incident.

Here's tae us -
Wha's like us -
Damn few -
And they're a' deid -
Mairs the pity!



Roll on the next get together.

Just settled down at home! Thank you for inviting us all, elegran. It was lovely

I was sitting with an ex principal of Univ Strathclyde and a man on his way to pipe at a Burns Supper on the train back from Edinburgh. Very interesting talk about bagpipes. Fun journey.

Then train home from Glasgow and Mr Bags waited for me at the station because he knows how scared I am of driving in snow. That was nice. Meanwhile phoned Minibags to check she was OK. Certainly – she was making snowmen and igloos in the garden with pals.

Gransnet Burns' Birthday meet up was super and all is well. Thank you all for a lovely time.

Thank you all for braving the elements to come - and for the return journeys you have done too, when it was all over. I just had to stay here in the warm eating traybake.

What a lovely day you've all had, sounds wonderful

It was lovely to meet a new gransnetter too. Hope you can come to some more of our meet ups, henrietta. And hope to chat to you on here too

We missed Henrietta! OH!!!

The 'other' lot have got Scottish emoticons!

Well I am home had to follow the snow plough the last three miles but home safe and sound.

elegran thank you so much for a fantastic Burns meeting ( I had haggis 1st time ever) you must have had a very busy few days preparing for the invasion

Thank you gillybob * bags* lurkio baubles granny23 elegran elizabeth1 marelli and last but not least henrietta for a fantastic afternoon chat and laughter, sorry that soop absent and all the others could not be with us but we will all get together again soon and talk each others ears off.

Arrived home safe and well after a lovely day with the very best of company. Thank you Elegran for being such a great host and for all of your hard work making our day ( and my very first Haggis) so special.

To all you lovely ladies it was great to meet you all and goodnight.

PS Really heavy snow here at home on the North East coast tonight I must learn to keep quiet about the snow not lying near the seaside!!

Looks like we just got that meeting in before the weather got really bad.

Here the sun is shining, it is cold but dry, no snow (yet)