St Andrews Day

Is the GN Tech on a go slow or does he even exist ??

Kate, it could be fake news
There is lots of it about!

varian it must have been St Andrew's Day as English school children didn't get a day off, so it was for Sir Winston Churchill.
We didn't get St George's Day off either.

I tried to copy and paste the thistle, but it didn't work.

wasn't!

I can't find anniebach's post, Izabella


I could have knit one by now Cari and I am a slow knitter!!
and I'm not Scottish.

Jalima1108, you have to save the thistle icon first and then upload from the file.

I wondered if Izabella meant annodomini

Ah, thank you, I tried to copy and paste

I used to try that also, then eventually worked it out after trial, error and lots of frustration.

GNHQ, you can have one of our thistles.

I think the tech guys are

Izabella The thistle doesn't represent St Andrew. He is represented by a diagonal cross, as is on the Scottish flag, the saltire.

The legend is that "the thistle was responsible for alerting a sleeping Scottish army to the hostile intentions of an invading army of Norsemen who thought it a good idea to creep up on them at night.

When one of the invaders stood on a thistle with his bare feet his resulting cries of pain alerted the Scots who promptly fell upon and defeated the invading Norsemen."

More about Scotland and thistle at kasmansbonniescotland.blogspot.com/2016/01/thistle-do.html

thanks for the clarification of the thistle. Am having a confused day here. Anniebachs comments are on another thread. ? hopefully she will do d my message regardless

Normal service will hopefully be resumed soon (or not as the case may be!).

I give up

Oh don't do that!

Sorry. 3 Funerals pending and me (the coper) isn't coping too well.

Isabella, sorry to hear you are feeling so low.

Yes Marydoll fake news. I think I heard that chap with the blonde comb over mention those words once or a hundred times. ?‍?

Izabella sorry, I am easily these days

I'm just sorry that the Saltire has been appropriated by the SNP. Thistle do for me!

HQ We have just over 13 hours to go .

If GN uses the leek, shamrock and rose for the other Saints' Days then obviously we need to see a thistle tomorrow.

The Saltire (St Andrew's Cross) belongs to all Scots folk. It cannot be appropriated by the SNP, any more than the St George's flag can belong to the English Nationalists or the Union Jack to the BNP.

You have made me want a pattern for a knitted thistle!!!!! I feel the graph paper coming out. Or maybe I can do cupcakes with thistles - after the indigestion inducing but yummy haggis.

If ALL legitimate users of the flags were to display them whenever it is relevant, the take-over bids by one or other organisation would be diluted and their monopoly would cease. If others stop "showing the flags" they become more and more a symbol of those monopolising organisations.

The thistle embodies our motto: ^nemo me impune lacessit
Wha daur meddle wi' me?^
Indeed, who would pluck a thistle with bare hands?