Wishing all our members and friends a Merry Christmas and good bowling in 2026

The Xmas Party was enjoyed by several members and guests with a visit from Santa with special thanks to all his helpers who prepared food and washed dishes afterwards.

Food was partly sponsored by Cook – the frozen food specialists based in Morningside

Some New Year events for your diaries

Burns Supper Saturday 24th January

Whisky Tasting Friday 13th February

AGM this time a Sunday at 14:00 on 1st March

We have just agreed a sponsorship deal with PROJEKTRIDE

Their goal is to provide the cycling community with a resource to buy and sell premium, recognised brands and to support the expansion of their shared passion. They offer full custom builds and have a comprehensive workshop to keep your bike running sweet. They recently added Mirider electric bikes to their extensive range of the brands stocked .

You will find them near Salisbury Corner at 82 Newington Road

see link to their website:

https://projektride.co.uk/?srsltid=AfmBOoo_fKXq18QlFQtRcXUzyzi9pbpbzcpYwVfLv4gjQRJ3jO1KLqqj

They offer Whitehouse & Grange Members 10% discount as part of the sponsorship deal. Loyalty card available on request from the Club Treasurer.

Gents’ nominated triples won this year by Guy Llloyd Jones, John Wright & Stephen Fox. Our SESBA Senior Champions of Derek Nelson, Neil Gauld and Brian Gray could not quite emulate that success this time despite winning the most ends 8 to 7.

Both Two Bowls Finals were very close contests. Linda Scotland overcame Soosan Danesh to win Ladies’ and Neil Gauld was successful against Jim Moffat in the Mens’. In the Mens’ final, there were so many “touchers”( mostly by JIm) that the marker nearly ran out of chalk.

Liz Moffat and Sandra Laidlaw won the September Quaich beating Carol Wilson and Soosan Danesh in a close final. Sandra is obviously a Pairs Specialist, since this is her fourth pairs trophy of the season.

On 19th September, as part of our continued links with the Eric Liddell Community, we hosted a group on our Green. We received the following thank you from Valeria Lembo, Dementia Service Co-ordinator “Massive thank you from me and our group. We had a lot of fun with great positive feedback about how much fun they had and they joy of feeling physically active, moving, bending and getting excited about the game.”

Soosan Danesh & Malcolm Weir won the Nominated Mixed Pairs with Lyn Blackhall & Derek Nelson as runners-up.

Meanwhile, Lyn Blackhall partnering Sandra Laidlaw had more success in the Ladies Pairs beating Maggie Clapperton & Liz Moffat in the final. Their second Pairs Title of the season

Rounding up our Pairs Competitions for the year, John Cameron & Ross Maguire won the Gents’ Nominated Pairs adding to the Drawn Senior Pairs Title they won earlier.

Soosan Danesh won both the Ladies Handicap Tray and the Points/ Adamson Trophy with Lyn Blackhall as runner -up on both occasions

Congratulations to our Triples of Derek Nelson, Neil Gauld & Brian Gray (assisted in one round on their march to the Final by Eric Arnold ) in winning the SESBA Triples Knock-out, beating Liberton in the Final at Craigmillar Park

Andy Sherlock won the Gents’ Handicap beating Stephen Fox in the Final

Ross Muguire triumphed over Neil Gauld to take the Senior Championship