Anon - One disgruntled (non Duns of course) skip to another. This game is finely balanced. Your lot are never on the brush and mine are ignoring my calls
Margaret Isaac admission- I'm sorry I've got a clangy brush
Authority of the skip -
1st stone Skip to 3rd: "Sweep, sweep" 3rd (disobeying) : "Naw, it disnae need it" Stone draws to the tee Skip to 3rd : "Aye, you were right to ignore my call"
2nd stone Skip to 3rd: "Leave it, leave it" 3rd (disobeying) to 2nd : "Sweep, it needs it" Stone just makes the house Skip to 3rd : "Aye, you were right to ignore my call"
3rd stone Skip to 3rd: "Please your bluidy self whit ye dae"
Possibly misquoted from Jill or maybe heard out of context but apparently " That's five in a row George has given me"
Although I cannot claim that this was overheard, I noticed in yesterday's newspaper that one Winter Olympic commentator had remarked that Women's Curling was "Part sport and part housework" As the ladies were doing better than their UK male counterparts, this sounded sexist to me!
Overheard Helen, describing her team's victory over the Alistair Hodge outfit, " It was a lovely game. Very thoughtful. In fact, we out-thought them"
(After Helen came running out to help sweep a lead stone, and lost her footing) Edith: "Watch that you don't touch the stone" (not much interest in Helen's welfare as she bumped around the ice)
Helen to Jack in the bar: "are you not drinking ?" Jack "No. I forgot to bring any money" Helen "Oh, Jack. Never mind. As your opposition skip, I'll get you one. Wait a minute, I have only 30 pence. Sorry" {It's the thought that counts - unless you're thirsty}
Chris: "I think that some of the overheard remarks on the internet are a bit cruel" {No Chris, they are all overheard - or misheard--- eh... or made up}
Helen "I cannot open John Walker's attachments" {see above - I'd love to know into what category this one falls!!} ( ps. Helen, they are Microsoft Word files)
There were 5 facts you needed to know to understand curling according to a tv piece following the success of the Scootish Ladies in the Olympics, namely:
"1. It was first reported in the 16th century"
"2. The stones weigh 42lb ('about the weight of a television') and are made from granite from Elsa Craig" (I kid you not)
"3. There are four players in the team - a skipper and 3 sweepers" (it wasn't clear who chucked the stones down but ...). "The skipper's job is to shout "Hurry hard" and the sweepers make the stone go faster by getting it to aquaplane over the ice."
"4. In a modern curling rink the ice is strewn with pebbles to make it harder to aim the stones" (I was so overcome I barely heard the last point but it was, I'm sure:)
"5. There are no curling rinks in England (difficult getting enough pebbles nearby probably)"
An entertaining moment -- George on seeing a tight delivery "OH YES" for sweeping (voice registering obvious hope) then, on seeing the damage that was inevitable, "OHHH NOOOO" (in a resigned mournful moan) - both loud enough to be heard throughout the ice rink.
Jill - "I just got down and forgot how to hold it"
As we proceeded upstairs, Jill said determinedly "I'm not saying anything as it keeps turning up on the website" How far was the truth from that remark!!
Firstly, when George had taken the seat kindly saved for him by Jill next to herself: "George, I hear you have been telling Colin Jeffries porkies. You said you beat us last time out. George, we STUFFED you"
Harking back to the comments raised about the possibility of Jill and George tying the knot when we heard that they had been drawn together in the pairs, it was suggested that the wedding would be October especially as Jill had saved George a seat.
Jill vehemently refuted any possibility of October (perhaps another date then?). On hearing that there was to be no wedding Paul remarked with regret: "I thought I would have been best man, or at least maid of honour" Jill: "Not with legs like you've got?" Colin Martin :"How do you know so much about Paul's legs?" Colin Jeffries; "Jill, you've not been nipping in to the Mens' changing rooms again , have you?"
Apropos a discussion on hair or lack of it which had become a bit personal.
George: "Jill, you know that the ground below dense reeds is a bit soft"
Jill: (speechless)" Well, that is a bit of a conversation stopper"
George: " That would take some doing with you!" - which was proved correct.
Jill to Morven "I'm not like this at school, am I ?" Morven, torn between loyalty and veracity, elected for the truth "Err, yes you are"
Morven, rising to leave, to Jill who was in an animated discussion with George "If I could just tear you away..........."
George : " It is important to practice finger-tip control"
Michael Sutherland, looking at the Duns v Earlston scoreline of 12-3 : "What's gone wrong ?" Colin J, in reply: " I dont know how we managed to let them get 3 "
On tallying up the points of various teams and concluding that team 5 could not now be overtaken
Colin M: "That's a pity" ...........Colin J:" That's marvellous"
In the bar, Philip( a shade smugly):" Billy, do you realise that we have been in the winning team in the first league AND the 2nd league" ........Colin M: "Do you realise that the members of a winning rink get promoted for next year" Colin J:" This means that you two get a double promotion, Billy will skip next year and Philip will move to 3rd"..... Philip (sadly) :"Oh dear"
Discussions featuring John Walker "John phoned to tell me that he was in the winning bonspiel rink" "Me, too" "And me" "He phoned me on Sunday then again on Monday" Billy :"He told me that Colin M had a good 3rd" Colin M: "Aye, he told me that too"
Further discussions re John Walker's bargaining powers and his new kilt outfit. "I hope the kiltmaker doesn't pay John back by skimping on material. Just imagine John at a function in a minikilt"
Colin: "next year, I would like the secretary to produce yellow and red cards for use during games as we have in our midst someone prone to ungentle-womanly behaviour." - This was a thinly veiled reference to Jill who spent the evening winding up the opposition. Colin moaned that it was bad enough to have people talking when he was on the hack but to be barracked by the opposition during his delivery slide was something new.
I have John's cycling gloves. Jim Keddie had kept them and made some insulting remark about it being time that John W got on his bike any way.
Colin J: "I used to sweep aggressively right next to the stone but now I am a bit more timorous and sweep further in front"
Jill and Chris, in chorus "You timorous, Ha"
Jill ; "John Walker must not be feeling well as his phone call lasted less than 10 seconds"
Jill upstairs commenting on overheard and John W's minikilt. "He shouldn't wear a minikilt with his nobbly knees." Philip:" How do you know what his knees look like? " Colin J:" Have you been using the men's changing room again ? " (see earlier comment on Paul's legs -- does she have a fixation ?) Jill "Darn, found out again"
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