Ice Skating and Curling on The Lochs of Scotland

Minder — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:57:12 +0000

Due to this amazing cold weather (for some), The Royal Caledonian Curling Club may have the rare and great opportunity to hold the Bonspiel or Grand Match of Curling on the Lake of Menteith. It is set to be the venue and the Curling Club meet next week to make a decision on the event.

This Lake is ideal for this event as it is fairly shallow and needs approximately over 7" to be safe.

Looking at the weather forecast the cold spell is set in for the near future.

We would love to have a local perspective on this event and the history behind it, its just a shame we can not make it up there if it goes ahead.

Please send in any photos you have of this Lake.

Good luck with the weather!, however it may be on our side this year.

Please check for updates and future events at The Royal Caledonian Curling Club website

Now the Winter Olympics is over and with all the positive media coverage Curling has had again, it may boast the sports popularity in area's where fresh blood is needed. It was sad to find out when I was stopping in Pitlochery this Winter that their rink had to close a couple of years ago, partly due to lack of income.

Hopefully things will pick up once again.

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Fenland Ice Skating – Back to the Grass Roots!

Minder — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:56:35 +0000

With all these cold temperatures for a prolonged period, which is unusal for these days, I was wondering if we had anything in this country that could compare to the frozen Lakes of Central Europe in Winter where you can skate and have fun on a SAFE surface.

Whilst 'skating' the World Wide Web I stumbled across the Fenland Skating Championship which for many years ago was held on the Fenlands on a more regular basis.

This may have been one of the places where British Speed Skating and forms of Bandy Hockey gained popularity and developed.

Its lovely to see the local communities are keeping these fun pastimes alive and well in our changing environment.

Please check out this website Fenland Skating for locations and conditions.

If you have any photos or stories to share please feel free to add it to this site, as we would love to hear from you.

Keep the passion alive !

Get yourself geared up ready for next year.