Clean Sweep for Team Peart

Despite the state of his broom Daniel and his team of Dave Wyllie, Simon Rice and Sheena (New Zealand) Munro have completed a clean sweep of the Knockout, Trophy and Shots Competitions.  As a result they have also topped the Peter Allan Shield standings.  Pies a plenty. 

Points 25/26

A new era dawned in this years Points.  

Sharing the ice with 'The Other Club' meant reduced costs and an increased number of players which resulted in a more convivial atmosphere.  It also meant that we played two less exercises than last year (and didn't get off the ice before the bell!) .

It was also great to see three players from our reserves list playing including two of our junior members.  With them playing, what some thought was, annoyingly well ;-)

Anyway, it is a BIG congratulations to newcomer Ali Breeze, who adds the Points Trophy to his Xmas Bonspiel crown. 

President v Vice

Congratulations to the Vice President's Men and Pam, consisting of Mike Wood, Daniel Peart, Graeme Maguire and Pam Clark. 

In the end the scores against the President's team looked convincing, the game however wasn't as one sided as it looked.  The Wood Quartet got off to a good start and after that just fell into a groove with the President's team having to play ever more inventive shots to get round the barricade of guards that both teams kept putting up.

There were a convivial  reflections over Soup and Sandwiches (and complimentary coffee and tray bakes) after the game.

Thirds - Winners

Congratulations to David Wyllie, Dale Callander, Pam Clark and the hybrid Maguire/Wood combo for winning the Thirds.  Following Daniels footsteps they did so with a 100% win record. This could make next season interesting.
 

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.