April in Edinburgh

Just adding my thanks to Elegran and all Gransnetters for a lovely day. Hope you're feeling rested, Elegran...and that the dreaded lurgy hasn't materialised?
Hope too that everyone got home safely ;-)

I am on my way now and will be quite comfortable thankyou Marmight

So what are we doing in May, then?

Thank you elegran , jane10,katek and all the other grans too many to mention, as usual with elegrans organisational skills we had a fantastic day.
It was great to meet all the old faces and lots more new.
But such a disappointment not to have seen the missing Grans ... But there will be a next time.

Lovely to meet you Pittcity. Hope you have a good journey home today!

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As Marmight was taking loads of photos, I only recorded the excellent lunch which was enhanced by the company.

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and lastly, a very wicked pudding and Marelli with her new friend!

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More photos

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Thank you Elegran for all your hard work making it such an enjoyable and successful day. Great to meet old and new friends.

Here's to Elegran, Jane10, Katek and thatbags for a grand day out Lovely to meet everyone too. And what great food.

What a great day Elegran thank you so much for organising us and The Experiment (this one will go down in Gransnet history I think), also to Jane10 for her talk about her book and the tribulations of a published author
Thanks also to Marmight for her hospitality and Bags for the cuttings which were safely retrieved!
Lovely to see old friends and meet some new ones - sorry there wasn't enough time to talk to everyone!
Here's to the next time

Just home via DS's house. A huge thanks to Elegran for organising another smashing day and to everyone involved in making it so enjoyable. Hope your voice is just tired out Elegran and that you feel better in the morning.

Here's to the next time and to those who were unable to make it today.

I realised part way along Princes Street that I'd forgotten my party bag but as I was on my way to the Starbucks off Waverley Steps to pick up the bag with Escallonia cuttings for janeainsworth (she brought me a lovely pelargonia which is now sitting near my landing window; thank you, janea) that I'd left behind this morning, I decided there wasn't time to go back for it.

That Starbucks and I are beginning to have history: last time I was there, after jane10's book launch, I left my wallet! That did not turn up so I had a merry time renewing driving licence, bank card and so on. That'll teach me to be scatty, I thought. Aye, right... so next time I was there I left something else!!

However, katek's quick thinking and rather more advanced phone than mine, quickly found the Starbucks number and they had actually found the bag with plants sticking out of it without suspecting a bomb, and had kept it.

Hey ho! Scat-tastic. My mum was always saying...

Thanks so much Elegran for doing the organising and everyone who was there for being so friendly and chatty. Had a great day. Food and cake was fabulous. Goody bags were fantastic-so much stuff and Gransnet pens!

Doing damn-all at the moment. My throat is parched and I am knackerood. I think I may be in for a virus, but it may just be talking too much.

Many thanks to Jane10 and Katek for scrounging contents for the party bags, to "Thatbags for the quiz and Geminijen for the MOOC info. I am signed up for the "Introduction to forensics", which starts at the beginning of next week, if anyone wants to join me. I hope the crime is as easy to solve as our strawberry thief.

(Bags you left your party bag behind (the one with Bags bag 2 on it) On fact, it wasn't the only party bag to be left. There are a couple more, but they are not labelled.)

And thanks to everyone for coming and making it such a success.

So that's over, what's next, then?

Thanks Elegran for a fabulous day.
I am now sat in my hotel with a G&T and a Tunnocks tea cake. No room for any more after lunch and cake galore!

A fab day all round....thank you so much Elegran for all the effort you put into organising today. As Jane10' says I wish I'd had more time to speak to more people. There's always the next meet up! I am now stuffed with food, have broken my diet with pudding and cake and still have 18 teacakes and 30/40 tubes of toothpaste to dispose of! Ee tha's bin a good day.

Hope your having a well-deserved, restful evening Elegran !

Excellent day. Only wish I'd managed to talk to even more people!! Next time .....

Thanks so much Elegran!

Home back in the bright sunny west though there was sleety-looking rain at one point on the journey over and DH said there was snow in Glasgow today.

Lovely day, well organised by elegran. Thank you!

It was great to see old faces and some new ones and to spend chat-tastic time with everyone. Those who couldn't make it this time for whatever decrees of Fate were missed and spoken of as being missed. Here's to better luck next time!

We were so well supplied with cake by the ROSL that I think I'll take a wee plastic food box next time to bring some home; I didn't have room for it after the splendid lunch.

Wish you could have been with us, Granny23 and Grannylyn65.

Thanks so much to Elegran for the lovely day - and experiment - she organised for us today!
It was really good to meet up with old (not literally, of course!) and new faces. Lunch was delicious, as it always is at ROSL (greedy emoticon)!
Also thanks to Jane10 for the talk and reading she did for us from her book.
A really lovely day!

Wishing you all a wonderful day and wishing I could join you. Looking forward to reading your reports tomorrow. Have fun.

Oh no grannylyn you will be missed.
Get well soon.
The party wasn't us Marmight I just walked past last night and saw them in the upper window.
Not long now #excited!

Apologies everyone, another bout of GP so unable to travel
Am so

Shock, horror! Just seen the weather forecast for tomorrow - snow ☃
Have fun tonight all you party girls