Uncle Bob’s Bits: A New Curling Season + A New Aching Body

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · Sep 23, 2026 · 9m

Bob Addison is back on the ice, and this season's soreness has shown up somewhere new, a detail that says a lot about what curling actually demands from the body.

He also shares a story about a former teammate who, after hip surgery, kept watching his own games live from home, and what his curling club did in his honour after he passed.

Bob rounds it out with a detail from a BC curling club he visited this weekend, where a well-known Canadian curling movie poster has turned up in a spot nobody would expect.

Topics: curling season, curling injuries, curling community, curling culture, Bob…