Hi all, Stromness had a game similar in concept to the Ba' but it died out after the First World War. Instead of a Ba' the North Enders and South Enders fought over a Yule Log. Obtaining a Yule Log wasn't always easy because of the shortage of trees and I can remember my father telling me that many a householder woke on a Christmas or New Year's Day to find a well-loved tree had disappeared from his or her garden! Maybe we Stromnessians contributed to the shortage of trees in Orkney :-) -- Mike Clouston