Final Leg for Canadian Tourists

The Canadian women are in the final stages of their friendship tour to Scotland. Today they are at Greenacres. That's Olympian Rhona Martin throwing the first stone this morning, with Liz Knox and Christine Miller as the sweepers. I see from the results here that the visitors are well up overall.

Brenda Macintyre, Ladies Branch President, has been the courier and her regular blog reports (here) make a fine read, and form a good record of the tour.

Braehead and the Waterfront are the remaining stops.

Photo is courtesy of Hugh Stewart. Click on the image to see it in a larger size.

Canadian Tour at Stranraer

The Canadian women are at Stranraer. I've received this photo of the group with the Stranraer Ladies, courtesy of The Galloway Gazette. It was sent on by Louise Kerr who is the embedded blogally on this occasion! Thanks Louise. Can you pick her out in the photo? Click on the image to see it larger.

Courier Brenda Macintyre's reports are here. The scores from around the rinks are here.

So, to other things. Where will the blog be reporting from this weekend? There's lots on, of course. The second Women's Tour event is at Curl Aberdeen, the second leg of the Scottish Men's Qualifiers at Lockerbie and the Province Championships at Greenacres. Kay Adams has it all summarised in her Weekend Preview here.

Don't forget. November 23 - next Tuesday - is 'Hug a Curler Day'. Honest, it is!

Canadian Tour at Curl-Aberdeen

I would expect that the Canadian women, currently in the first week of their friendship tour of Scotland, will get a warm welcome wherever they go. They began their curling at Stirling and Forfar. On Monday they were being looked after by the Aberdeen Ladies Centre. The photo above of the group arriving at Curl-Aberdeen was taken by Kay Gibb. Kay tells me they were treated to a tour of the city and were hosted at Anne Malcolm's home for lunch! After their games on Monday, the Canadians were already eleven shots up overall. Monday night saw them at home with hostesses and a reception and dinner at Curl-Aberdeen.

Yesterday, they were at Elgin and then on to Inverness today. Kirkcaldy is tomorrow.

If you have looked at any of the old videos in my earlier post today, you will have noticed that being piped onto the ice was as much a feature of the sport back then, as it is today!

This is the Canadian group singing their 'tour song'! If you put your ear close to the photo on the screen you can hear it.

I hope to catch up with the group soon and get some pics of them on the ice, if not a recording of them singing!

The running scores can be found on the Royal Club website here.

Photos courtesy of Kay Gibb.