Graeme Murdoch is delighted at the independent spirit of the curlers who organised their own informal events - curling, ice hockey, ice skating – at the Lake of Mentieth on Saturday and Sunday.
This followed universal diasppointment – disgust even – at the public sector’s inability to rise to the occasion and support the formal Bonspiel – or Grand Match – which the Royal Caledonian Curling Club had hoped to see on the fully frozen Lake of Mentieth today or tomorrow. This would have been the first Bonspiel since 1979 and the feeble-spirited call off means that the 1979 Grand Match may be the last ever held.
The DIY spirit of the sportsfolk – with a sensible care to their own health and safety of course, drove Graeme to his local (and also frozen over) Duddingston Loch in Edinburgh. There he swept a sheet for curling as a gesture of solidarity with the 2,000 or so activists who made the Lake of Mentieth their own at the weekend.
Graeme is now known to Argyll – from Rothesay, to Bowmore, to Craignish, to Calgary, to Easdale – for his work with Harry McGrath on Cultural Connect Scotland’s innovative Homecoming exhibition, This Is Who We Are.
This is the same outgoing energy to go and see that drove the connections (literally) the two men made between places in Canada’s Scottish diaspora communities and the places in Scotland who share the same name – a grand match of its own.
Brilliant! Good for Graeme Murdoch; good to see that not quite all Scots have been turned into Wimps by mindless authority.
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Well done to all those free spirits who ignored the negatives and went out on the ice and had fun.
AnElephantCant skate but lots of daft Scots can!
Bravo!!!
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