No Fun At The Bonspiel
I can't begin to tell you how excited we were all getting about the bonspiel. It started with an e-mail from our sports Editor, Tom Connor, who suggested we should put one of our Satellite trucks out at the Lake of Menteith on Tuesday to allow for regular reports on this historic curling tournament. Then we heard that News would be covering it for TV and radio...then we thought we put together a crafted documentary for the sake of posterity...or that MacAulay & Co might come live from the ice...then Annie McGuire said she would be the reporter on the scene and there was going to be a big meeting to decide which of these ideas we should prioritise.
And then we heard . Not safe, say the authorities.
So everyone at Ö÷²¥´óÐã Scotland went back to their desks and their normal jobs and the hysteria evaporated.
Not safe?
When is ice curling ever safe? I played one game - many years ago - after being duped by Lisa Summers into believing it would be a good team-building activity for the staff in Selkirk.
What she didn't tell me was that I would be crashing my knees into a solid surface every few minutes and hobbling about the office for a week afterwards.
"Poor technique," she explained, without an ounce of sympathy. She has a thin sliver of ice in her heart does that woman.
Still, a bonspiel would have been fun.
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