Robert Burns' birthday

Oh harrigran - here's a bunch of ! It takes a lot more than a gentle comment like that to bother any of us. You met the majority of us at Gally's that time, so you know what a feisty bunch we are ! xx

You should have been there harrigran - to see how UNlikely a bunch we all were to take offence!

Phew, I spent the afternoon wondering whether I should leave before I got hounded out.

We are not easily insulted Harrigran. We know that we are old enough to be grans.

your forgiven harri

I am mortified, I have just reread what I wrote. No insults intended, you are all beautiful ladies, I had not met gillybob before

I've been having rather strange meals. Yesterday a friend and I had haggis, neeps and mashed potato, followed by trifle and wine/fruit jelly (but the jelly has completely dissolved into the juice of the cut fruit) She took a generous helping if haggis home for her husband. Today it is cheese and oatcakes (very healthy) followed by a large helping of cream trifle (not so healthy)

Wonder what tomorrow will bring? There is still plenty of haggis . . . .

Just as well I know you harri <leaves in a huff>

We will all go into a huff and leave. Then what will you do for haggis and chat?

That is undoubtedly true Harrigran but you do realise you have just insulted the other 8 of us

Lovely photos glass and gillybob you don't look old enough to be a gran
Glad you all had a great time.

Granny 23 I wish!

The Star o' Rabbie Burns! That's Elegran (and a song!)

Hear, hear! Thank you, elegran

baubles it is our house and is heaven on earth if there can be such a thing, one of these days we will get in.

I want to wholeheartedly agree that elegran is multi talented and made us all so welcome yesterday.

Glass I love your photos of the thrush. Is that the house you are renovating? It looks as though it's in a beautiful location.

Soop 'foolish' may be more apt

for Elegran what a multi talented lady she is.

glass These are great photos. I do wish I'd been there with you.

Your other photos are lovely - and I adore the thrush in the snow. Beautiful.

Lovely photos!

Ella46 But we all know that the camera can lie…

glass those are lovely photos, you all look very well behaved!

Great pics and you all quite clearly had a great time. So looking forward to a meet-up I can get to again. I'm a bit shocked by lack of haggis where I live – I never found it hard to get a properly authentic one in London, a couple of hundred miles further south than where I am now. If I hadn't been so busy, I would have made one myself as I am sure my lovely butcher in the market could have supplied me with a sheep's paunch – so long as I asked in advance.

Perhaps when I am living in New Zealand – which has loads of people of Scottish ancestry plus loads of sheep – I might set up an annual cottage industry of haggis production. There's a thought.

Great photos Glass, still can`t get used to Marelli with longer hair! Looks and sounds like you all had a brilliant time. Who addressed the haggis?

glass I enjoyed looking at the happy photos. Baubles it was brave of you to read the "tribute" to the haggis. I'm looking forward to the next gathering. I wish you all a pleasant, peaceful weekend.
Afore I go...GO, Andy, go...! We're rooting for you.

We had forgotten to bring the bagpipes, so we had to sing Scotland the Brave while the Haggis went on a tour round the room!

The photos are lovely, Glass...they come with their own sound-track: that of merry banter