Scottish Schools Plate Final

Isobel was down at the National Hockey Centre at Glasgow Green on Friday.  Her team, Robert Gordons College had qualified for the Plate Final in the National Schools Hockey finals.  The weather was atrocious, seriously wet to the point where play was stopped at one point because the water pitch was becoming waterlogged!

They were up against locals High School of Glasgow.  Robert Gordons went 2-0 down to a one on one first goal and a second goal from a short corner just after half time.  They fought back with two goals to make it 2:2 at full time so it went to penalties and unfortunately they lost 2:1 on penalties.  Never the less a great day out and a silver medal at the end of it.

SSSA Indoor Race

Ellie was down at the indoor slope at Braehead in Glasgow yesterday in the Scottish Schools indoor race that was being staged to make up for the lack of outdoor racing this winter.  She skied really well to finish 17th out of 52 girls from a start number of 29.  Definitely her best result so far.

Hockey and Baking

Isobel had a busy time with hockey this weekend, playing for Granite Cit first team.  On Saturday it was down to Fettes College in Edinburgh to play Grange Ladies who are top in their division, National Division 2.  Grange got revenge for their defeat by Granite City earlier in the season with an 7:O win over Granite City.  Isobel had a busy time!

This afternoon it was a return to winning ways with a 4:1 win over University of St Andrews Ladies to leave them lying 5th in their division of 11 teams.

Meanwhile Ellie had a weekend of work and some baking...........and produced the most amazing Swiss Roll. It tasted as good as it looked, there is not much left now!

Baking

It was Ellie's turn to do the baking today and she produced a purple themed blueberry cupcake,, complete with a blueberry jelly in the middle..................yummy, absolutely delicious!!  Glad I have had a couple of nice long bike rides,, means I can have two with a clean conscience!

Julie meantime has been on the marmalade production, this time a dark marmalade and a blood orange one is still in production!  Think we have about a years worth at present.......happy days.

The snowdrops are looking lovely in the garden, spring is here.

Courchevel 2017

Just home from Courchevel 2017.  Had a fantastic week, the fresh snow of the previous week had freshened up the pistes but they could do with plenty more.  The weather was fantastic with clear blue skies almost every day.

The kids had 4 afternoons training on the Stade Courchevel on the World Cup Race piste.  Two days of giant slalom and two days of slalom.  Thanks go to Gary and Gordon for a fantastic week of coaching.

Looking down the slalom course on the Stade

Ellie came home buzzing having skied her first couloir, the Grande Couloir under the cable car on Saulire, her father found it somewhat hard to watch! Lucky her mother was not around!

They traversed in just below the big rock at the top of this bottom photo and you can see them making their way down, ellie is almost at the bottom.

Above all the kids just had a load of fun.