St Andrews Day

???????is the only appropriate emoji on my phone (there is a shamrock and a maple leaf)
So I wish you Happy St Andrew's Day with a ?

Feeling let down by GN. DGC have a holiday from school so hope to join them today.
This is for anyone who cares!

I would stay up all night and knit you one Grammaretto but the post being like it is, it would never reach you in time ….

Ah Jalima, mustn't seem ungrateful. I shall be so busy boiling haggises tomorrow and peeling neeps and tatties I will hardly have time to take my pinny off and change into my plaid and pin my knitted thistle in position before the pipes start up.
Have a happy St Andrew's day all you Scots out there. I'm off to bed.

3hrs 10 minutes....

Cari said that the tech guys were trying to knit one for you Grammaretto

Who am I to argue?

(she didn't mention how fumble fisted they are, knit one drop one)

Why does it need to be knitted? Can't we draw a thistle?

You could fill every posts with a thistle picture tomorrow!

Well done to your sister mcem

jalima1108. Thank you. I can do some crochet. I can also change this so I can knit it so thank you and if you see someone in a hat with a knitted thistle it will be me.

My sister knitted this and I 'll ask about pattern. Too late for this year !
I think GN will also be too late despite requests made years a week ago!

www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/scottish-thistle
A pattern for a Scottish thistle - sorry it is crochet Feelingmyage; I would make you one but I have never been able to crochet.
It looks quite easy, though, for those who can.

I'm surprised GNHQ have not taken our motto to heart. .
The clock is ticking.

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

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.

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 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.

HQ We have just over 13 hours to go .

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

Izabella sorry, I am easily these days

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

Isabella, sorry to hear you are feeling so low.

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

Oh don't do that!