Merry Xmas and Happy New Year

Hostilities recommence on Thrs 8th January 2026 

 

Thirds at 50%

 At the halfway mark in the Thirds Competition, Team Wyllie has the whip hand with two wins out of two.  The Hicks team is in close attendance, one game and also one end behind and ready to pounce on any slip ups.  Meanwhile The Mackey squad is languishing and it is starting to look like Julia may end up the season 'pie-less'.   Still everything to play for though.

Xmas Bonspiel

Validation from Curl Edinburgh

Another Year, another excuse to embarrass yourself at the annual bonspiel. 

This year featured no less than 3 dragons and 2 unicorns (of undecided gender - wait, do unicorns have a gender?) and other amorphous 'Animals - keeping it weird' taking to the ice.  With no totally new tasks to perform, the whole circus seemed to run fairly smoothly, apart from Mikes 'wild' shot nearly taking out 2 young Crabbie Trophy (schools) finalists, playing on the next sheet. Our own two youngsters, Ali Breeze and Finlay Richardson  were unperturbed by the cruel and unusual ends that they were asked to play and took them in their stride, leaving their mothers having to scramble for a copy of the 'rules' to make head or tails (of which there were at least eight) of the unfolding chaos below.  To be fair, Ali and Finlay already thought that most of us (well me anyway) were fairly mad.

Congratulations to Mike Wood, Graeme Maguire and Ali Breeze, who ran out clear winners ahead of Dale, Gavin and Finlay in second place.  Julia's honking pig, ensured that her team were in last spot. 

Province Pairs

Commiserations to David Wyllie and Graeme Maguire on their results in the Province Pairs.

It was heard said that they never really recovered from a 'Lucky Shot' in the first end of the first game.  Despite not playing badly (in my opinion) they kept the overworked scorers lives easy by failing to score a single shot or end in either of their two games.  It should (perhaps?) be noted that their qualifying games were against the eventual winners of both the High and Low Roads.