Tommy Campbell and his Lanarkshire team will be trying for a fourth consecutive Senior Mixed title as that championship gets underway at Stranraer tomorrow (Friday). The event was postponed from earlier in the season, but there are still sixteen teams in the draw (here).Lockerbie is the venue for the annual Junior Invitation competition. Juniors are also competing at Braehead in the Festive Cup. Just why junior events have to clash on the same weekend is a mystery to me - there are few enough opportunities for our young curlers to compete. But maybe I'm just being grumpy again!
Still, given the choice for seasonal good will, I would be headed south. Fenton's rink in Kent, which is England's only dedicated curling rink, is having the world's first Santa Claus Bonspiel, which will see twenty-four Santas on the ice. The event is in aid of local charity, Hospice in The Weald! See here.
Jingle Bells to you too.
Top: Tommy Campbell. Pic by Bob.
Scottish Curler cartoonist, the talented Ian Rodney of the Alternative CC, drew this Santa curling for the Christmas issue in 2004!
2 comments:
Both junior competition committees are obviously stubborn and neither will move their competition date accordingly to allow juniors to compete in both. There is obviously a pride issue here and I believe neither will move because it means giving in to the other ice rink. Thats just my opinion.
Zara is looking forward to her first curling lesson from Grandpa Tom. Mind you.....think it will be a few years before there can be a Campbell in both the Junior and Seniors team.
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