St Andrews Day

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

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.

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!

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.

Well done to your sister mcem

You could fill every posts with a thistle picture tomorrow!

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

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)

3hrs 10 minutes....

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.

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 ….

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

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So I wish you Happy St Andrew's Day with a ?

There is a bit of Scottish ancestry in me as well being in St Andrew’s House at school. So after breakfast I shall pop a couple of swords on the grass and do a bit of nifty dancing. I think I can here some bagpipes. ?

Happy St Andrews Day to all Scottish grans .

Happy St Andrews Day. Google has dancing thistles!

Where's our thistle?
Happy St Andrew's Day to all Scots grans - especially to my fellow St Andreans.

DH is Scots. “What day is it today” says I to ‘im. “Friday” says he.

Happy Saint Andrews Day x

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Happy St Andrews Day and especially to all St Andreans
“ Gaudeamus igitur”

Happy memories of where I met my darling Paw 52 years ago.

Happy St Andrews Day.

HQ hang your head in shame.

Varian dont know what part of Scotland you grew up in but St Andrews day was never a holiday where I am.In fact there has been an ongoing campaign to make it a holiday for the past 20 years ,since the surge in the Independence movement.JANE10 The SNP didn't monopolise the Saltire ,they are the NATIONAL party of Scotland why would they not use the Scottish flag? The SNP symbol isn;t the Saltire BUT the Independence movement does use it and of course any other political persuasion is free to use it.Sadly many unionist (British /Scots) prefer to wave the Union Flag and have been seen on may occassions to BURN the Saltire .There is evidence of this on line .Happy St Andrews Day to my Greek and Russian friends who we share him with as well as my Scottish friends worldwide .

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Poor show GNHQ despite repeated requests, the same excuse is trotted out every year?

Don’t even contemplate the offer of the ridiculous ‘ Jimmy’ ?

paddyann, I agree. Even when I was a student in St Andrews, the university didn't recognise the day as a holiday although that has changed since I was there 60 years ago. And it wasn't a national holiday either. I think it's still the case that different cities or local authorities have different holidays in Scotland. Edinburgh might have one while Glasgow doesn't. I remember the Glasgow Fair fortnight in July just after the schools closed, and we drove over from Ayrshire to Fife to stay with Granny while it seemed that Glasgow decamped to the Firth of Clyde - doon the watter.