St Andrews Day

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I shall brush down my kilt and freshen up my sporran ?

Cherrytree59 ?

At last! Thank you HQ

Yeah!

Thank you, HQ. [rose]

Ummmm . . there is no rose! Is this ominous?

They managed to programme in the shamrock etc, which were not there when Gransnet started, and to put the Santa hats on the ordinary emojis for use at Christmas.

HQ I second Elegran 's request,
Or will 25th January 2019 just be
Grounghog day??

Izabella nobody just pulled the idea out of the hat with hardly a moment's warning. It's an annual event and the emoji is something we've requested year after year!
To anno and maw from a fellow St Andrean, have a good day and enjoy your memories. 50+ years ago! Hard to believe.

In fairness emojis are hard to programme in.

Tell you what might work, Lara, get tech started right away, planning to have it ready for Robert Burns birthday (25th Jan) and maybe it will be there in time for next year's St Andrew's Day.

Happy St Andrew’s Day. Maw I am singing it now!

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.

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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’ ?

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 .

Happy St Andrews Day.

HQ hang your head in shame.

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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 Saint Andrews Day x

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

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

Happy St Andrews Day. Google has dancing thistles!

Happy St Andrews Day to all Scottish grans .

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. ?