Tuesday, February 20, 2018

#2,773


At the Winter Olympics in Korea, the British contingent is delivering both surprising successes and heart-rending failures. All of this makes for compelling television entertainment. But the sport I follow is curling, since watching it for the first time when the action on the ice was transmitted from Sochi.

That a certain Peter Thomson in Perth fills ceramic miniatures of curling stones with his blended whisky, brings a smile to this Scot of the diaspora. The smile broadens with the realisation that the girls of the curling team representing the United Kingdom all hail from north of the border. Again this year their skip is the delightful and talented Eve Muirhead. She is also said to be a very competent player of the bagpipes and wears the kilt with aplomb! 


As things stand, a medal could well be a possibility. In 2014 it was bronze. Can the lassies better that result this year? 


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