St Andrews Day

I give up

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!).

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

I think the tech guys are

GNHQ, you can have one of our thistles.

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

Ah, thank you, I tried to copy and paste

I wondered if Izabella meant annodomini

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

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.

wasn't!

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.

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

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

anniebach further to your comments upthread, I have pm'd you.

As a little Scottish schoolgirl in the early 1950s, I enjoyed having a day off school on 30th November, but there was some confusion about whether we were supposed to be celebrating St Andrews Day or Winston Churchill's birthday.

Does the thistle represent St. Andrew?

A thistle for me too, please.

Don't think we need a flag. Would like to see thistle - in keeping with the rose, leek and shamrock.

Yes Izabella just like that!

Like this?

I recall GNers making same request last year
& probably the
year before
A Saltire or thistle will do nicely thank you.

And a black flag on my kindle fire.
Surely the pretty multi-coloured 'flowers' emoji is more complicated to knit than either a thistle or a saltire?

Just a black flag on my PC.

Saltire ???????