30th November is St Andrew's Day. Every year we have emojis for the other patron saints' days - a rose, a leek, a shamrock; but every year I find there is no thistle for us Scots and I post about it on this site, asking for recognition for the many Scots who are members of Gransnet. Please, this year, find us a thistle!
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.
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.
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.
Also, huge apologies. Our design/tech teams have been snowed under this week and we haven't managed to make this live on time. We PROMISE to have it done for next year though.
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.
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 .
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. ?