SCOTLAND!!

Victory for Scotland in the Four Nations!! Its probably my favourite tennis event to be involved in each year - I was expecting to be a non-playing captain, but was surprised (in a good way!) to be selected to play in the senior team. Keith Meisner & Jordy Gray were the senior men, Euan McGinn our captain and Claire Birnie the other female. We won our category, beating Ireland 4-2, England 4-2 and Wales 5-1. Our U/12 team won easily, and our U/14s and U/18s were a close second.


A bit of last minute pressure is always good so I trained hard for 2 weeks before and probably played my best tennis since finishing college, especially on the last day! It was great to have lots of supporters there, and everyone competed and supported really well. My results were as follows:
Beat Lynsey McCulloch (IRE) 6-3 6-1 Doubles 6/4 6/1
Beat Elizaeth Thomas (ENG) 2-6 6-3 10-3 Doubles 2/6 6/4 5/10
Beat Rebecca Llewellyn (WAL) 6-2 6-4 Doubles 7/6 6/2



This is a pic of Euan & I at the end - player & coach, both as patriotic as each other :) He had a couple of really good results as well so overall it was a great weekend. I really enjoyed competing again - it's taken me a week to recover but it was worth it!
Full results are on the Tennis Scotland website

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Braemar Highland Games!

Another fun weekend in Braemar for the highland games with mum & dad, Gav & Jen, Auntie Katie, and Pete & Mary Fettes. The ceilidh at Mar Lodge on Friday night was fun (the stag ballroom still impresses me every time) and the Games on Saturday is always entertaining! I ran the hill race again (up Morrone), and came 2nd lady, again :) It was fun, I think I felt a bit faster than last year but there was a headwind most of the way up so I'm sure my time was probably slower! Still, £100 for 35 minutes of pain isn't too bad...





On Sunday it was the family boat race, known as the 'Dee Challenge' - its turning into quite a competitive event between Dubrach (our house) and Mill of Coull (our cousins' place!). Dad, Gavin & I reclaimed the trophy for Dubrach this year, despite the impressive support crew that turned out for Mill of Coull... It was great fun as usual, and because the water levels were so high it was much easier this year because we didn't get grounded so often!



I came back and went to Mark & Sarah's place (friends from touch rugby) to watch the festival fireworks - they were really impressive and the photos definitely don't do it justice but I'll post them anyway.

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