Meet up for North East,Tyne and Wear or Northumberland

Have a great day and a drink for me too.
I did a gilly after the funeral and am now sporting a very black and swollen foot.

Have a great time, everyone!

It was a great day - I think some photos might be put up soon. We had a lovely lunch at Panis and then went for coffee/wine/etc at a very nice pavement cafe/pub. Met ayse for the first time, (and discovered how to pronounce her name - 'Aysha'?) Good company with people who, I've just realised, I've known for 3 years now.

I have just seen this and sorry I missed you all, pleased you had a great day.
I will have to keep logging into Gransnet a bit more. I hope to catch the next one.

marelli it was a good day, and great to meet old and new friends again, looking forward to seeing ayse at the next meeting. Ehh 3 years would you believe it.

I have tried to put some photos on direct from my phone but is taking forever to download so might have to wait until tomorrow.

Ohh pink I should have thought and messaged you, but I wont forget for the next meet up if your not around. Hope you are ok?

harri I have just seen your post, are you ok?

Great day in Newcastle. Thanks Glass for organising the restaurant. Lovely to meet up with everyone again and to meet Ayse. I have been gargling with a glass or two of after all that talking! Weren't we so lucky with the beautiful weather. I shall look forward to the next meeting - perhaps in Edinburgh.

Great to see everyone, and to meet Ayse, and thank you to the Edinburgh grans for making the trip down, and to Glass for organising

Yes, thanks glass for sorting it out (as usual!). Great to meet old friends again and to meet Ayse for the first time.

Must be the turn of us Northumberland GNers to make the trip next time and come to Edinburgh

Enjoyed another great meet up. Lovely to see everyone again and meet Ayse for the first time. Thanks for organizing the restaurant Glass wasn't the weather just lovely when we sat and had our drinks under the watchful eye of Earl Grey? Looking forward to the next one. [ smile]

Oh dear Harri I do hope you are okay. I can fall over a feather so Glass always reminds me not to wear my "fally down shoes" . Thinking of you.

I know that black and swollen foot look harri, hope it's not too painful today

Great time yesterday. Thanks to Glass for organising it and a lovely choice of restaurant. Mean of you to post such an awful picture of me on Facebook, though! Blasted waiter waited until I blinked. Why does everyone else always look so much better than I do in photos? Don't answer that.

Well, at least you didn't look like Red Rum, Elegran - but I did! Hadn't realised one earring was off (lost!) and all that on a lime and soda! Oh well, why try to change the habit of a lifetime - I'm just not very photogenic

I look bleary-eyed, fat and old

Almost enough to get me dieting.

I've seen your photos, courtesy of Moomin and JaneA and I think you ALL look fabulous! That looked like a very happy get-together.

No you don't Elegran, you look authoritative and serene

Ha ha!

Sorry elegran I loaded it from my phone and it looked fine ... but I didn't have my lenses in.Its usually me with my eyes shut on photos.

Envy you a trip to Pani's. Gloriously hot in Scotland but I spent it in a car ferrying the DGCs and DH around. Misty moisty today.

Not to worry Glass . Think I'll get a few early nights and see if there is any improvement though.

You're in good company Marelli; didn't Helen Mirren realise she was an earring short when she received her Oscar the other year?

Oh, so she did, Tegan! And I bet hers was a great big diamond one, eh!

Thankyou glass it is my fault as I have not been on here for a bit

Thanks to glass for organising and to all of you for a great lunch and wonderful afternoon. It was good to meet you all and I look forward to a next time .
I'll look forward to going to Edinburgh next time as I haven't been there since I was a child. I think I'll change the spelling of my name to Aisha so it's not so difficult to pronounce.
Best to all