🥌 Merry Christmas and Happy 2026 (when it comes!) 🥌
The committee hopes that everyone had a nice and relaxed festive period and that you are raring to go for the second half of the season!
The Lymphoy Cup start on the 9th of January with all 8 teams taking to the ice. Talking of teams, here are the teams for the Lymphoy Cup 2026:
Well, with the end of 2025 coming too fast, Currie and Balerno's first competition of the year, the Kettle, has come to an end.
To win the trophy for the second time in a row, all Karen Munro's team had to do was win or draw, and despite being without their named skip or their named lead, they won their game against Mike Wood's team.
On the other sheet, Kerry Clark was hoping for Karen to lose in the hopes of bunny-hopping her to the top spot, but a 4-all draw was how her game against John Steven ended, keeping her in second place. Interestingly, that game was 8 ends, both teams got 4 ends each and the game was tied 4 a-piece!
So congratulations are in order for the winners of the Kettle this year:
Karen Munro, Morna Aitken, Joe Barry and Allan MacLennan.
Taking home the Harlaw Cup this year is:
Kerry Clark, Shona Watt, Anne Anderson and Jill Gillard. Well done!
Karen's win means she is the first female skip to win the Kettle back-to-back and the first back-to-back win since Niall Gunn retained the trophy in the 2009/2010 season!
Here is the final league table:
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| League Table at the completion of the Kettle Competition. |
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| Score sheet at the completion of the Kettle Competition. |
We are quickly approaching the end of year and with it the end of the Kettle Competition, and what a competition it is turning out to be.
Kerry had a decisive victory over Dave which takes her into contention for the top prize! She needs to win her last game next week and she needs Karen to lose with fewer ends for the Kettle to fall into her hands. If Karen wins or draws, she wins the Kettle!
Here is the league table to have a look at...
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| League table after the completion of Round 6 |
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| Score sheet after the completion of Round 6. |
4 teams took to the ice on the 5th of December, 2 teams with their last games of the competition! Despite a valiant win by David Aitken against Karen Munro's team (skipped by his wife, Morna), David falls short of first place, finishing on 8 points. The only team that can catch Karen at the top is Kerry if she has back to back wins in her last 2 games, but even then it will be tied points so will come down to ends!
Intense finish to the competition is imminent...I for one can't wait but unfortunately I won't be able to make the last game so I will be waiting patiently for the cards to come through!
Anyway, back to the games at hand, here is the league table after the games on the 5th of December:
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| League table after the games on the 5th of December. |
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| Score sheet after games on the 5th of December. |
Hi all,
Apologies for the delay in posting the results of these games!
I'll skip straight to the scores and league table as that what everyone wants to see!
League table after the completion of Round 5 and start of Round 6:
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| League table after Round 5 is complete. |
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| Score sheet after games on the 28th of November. |
On the 15th of November, over 1000 curlers from all over Scotland took to the ice in 12 ice rinks to compete in the Grand Match.
The Grand Match was first held in 1847 in Penicuik when it was played outside. It was played outside for many years, with some 2400 players at the last 3 (thats 300 rinks!). It was a battle of North vs South.
Unfortunately, global warming and new health and safety rules meant to would be nearly impossible for an outdoor event of this scale to be held on a frozen lake and so the last Grand Match outside was played in 1979 on the Lake of Menteith.
In 2000, the Royal Caledonian Curling Club initiated an indoor version to be held across Scotland, in temperature-controlled ice rinks with nice safe ice. It was so popular that it was decided that it would take place every 5 years. Unfortunately, with the Covid pandemic taking hold in 2020, the Grand Match was cancelled for that year and there was a little uncertainty if it would be held again.
Luckily for all curlers, the RCCC made it happen in 2025, with the support of 12 ice rinks and many curlers (and a sponsor of Ambassador Cruise Line). North vs South, all for the love of the game. The games were played over 3 sessions.
Currie and Balerno had 2 teams out, one having an early start to play away in Aberdeen at 10am and a home team playing at Murrayfield. Both teams won their games for the South, which were added to the running total and after all games were finished and scores totaled, the South took the victory for the 5th time!
Here are a selection of pictures taken at Curl Aberdeen by one of the C&B teams:
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| Selfie with Father and Daughter (Photo credit: Karen Munro). |
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| Selfie with our opposition, Banchory Curling Club (Photo credit: Karen Munro). |
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| Jen and Betty taking a well deserved rest (Photo credit: Karen Munro). |
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| Selfie with the team (Photo credit: Karen Munro). |
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| The traditional stacking of the brooms at the 4th end (Photo credit: Curl Aberdeen). |
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| The traditional 'dram' (whisky or Irn Bru) after the broom stacking (Photo credit: Curl Aberdeen). |
Round 5 got off to a bang with 4 teams taking to the ice on the 14th of November.
Brian Fleming took on Niall Gunn and despite a strong start from Brian, a three, followed by a steal of another 3, just gave Niall the edge to take the win.
Dave Munro gave a strong, dominant performance against David Aitken, taking a 10-5 win.
Here is the league table after the first half of Round 5:
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| League Table after Round 5.25 |
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| Score Sheet after Round 5.25 |
