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We received the following letter from Karyn Nixon, Ada's daughter (click this link to see the order of service):

Dear David,

Thought you may like a copy of Mum's Order of Service.

Please thank everyone in the club for us for the many years of happiness you all gave Mum.

Mum's family and friends were first and foremost to Mum, followed closely by her bridge!

Kind regards,

Karyn.

The letter and order of service will be on the club noticeboard for a period of time.

The results after the final round of the PBC Online Pairs Championship held over the last three Tuesdays are: 

Congratulations to Cath Whiddon and David Farmer for their resounding win in the Open Division . Runners-up were Ian Bailey and Peter Robinson with Annegrete Kolding and Sarah Young in a very creditable third place.

In the Under 300 Masterpoint Division Suzanne Cole and Noleen Cregan held on to win whilst Trish Thomson and Marieta Borthwick in second just kept at bay third place-getters Margaret Titley and Alison Pratten.

The Under 100 event was a real nail-biter. Bronwyn Neal and Simon Hunter won by a mere 0.35 points from Savitri Newman and Kay Parker whilst a blinder of a last round from Joan and Roger Perkins left them less than three points behind in third.

In the Under 15 Division Dee Rowe and Bob Allen maintained their consistent form to stay ahead of another fast-finishing couple, Leah and David Boyd. Neil Mitchell and John O’Riordan finished a respectable third.

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There will be a third SALT teams event on BBO on Monday evenings at 7:30pm (or earlier) starting on September14th with 2 divisions (roughly U100 MPs and Open).

In the meantime, ATTENTION - novice and other 'newish' players!

We have participated in both of the two recent SALT competitions and highly recommend these events! As relatively new and inexperienced players, we have loved the opportunity to learn about team play in this friendly setting, and definitely intend to sign up again.   It would be fabulous to have additional teams in the next competition, and we encourage you to join us.

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The Covid Challenge came to an end on Tuesday after six keenly contested sessions. In all, over 40 pairs took part in the event with 23 pairs competing in at least five rounds.  You can see the results to date here.  On the basis of the best four scores, the winners in each Division were:

Open Winners: Lyn Baker and Jim Stewart;   Runners-up: Vivien Eldridge and Alan Davies

Under 300 Winners: Nerida Gillies and Sandy Carter;   Runners-up: Chris Dixon and Robert Gaven

Under 100 Winners: Cherie and Ron Tilley;   Runners-up: Cammy Kuveju and Leofric Kingsford-Smith

Under 15 Winners: Ruth Buchanan and Jan Grant;   Runners-up: Brigitte Grover and Tony Jenkins

A new Tuesday afternoon competition for each of the above Divisions is being planned and is expected to commence on Aug 11. Watch this website and your email inbox for more details.

Thankyou to John Rogers for setting up and directing this competition [Editor].

Last week on StepBridge, Annegrete and I had this interesting hand which highlighted several bidding issues when possibly searching for slam. 

Annegrete opened 2D (multi), I followed with 2NT (strong enquiry), then 3D from Annegrete (8-10 pts with 6 Spades). This was followed by a lead directing double from the opponents which worried me as I had 3 quick diamond losers in my hand.

At this stage I bailed into 4S knowing there was a good chance we should be higher but that we had no agreement in place about which further bids would show agreement of suit and be showing controls rather than be natural.

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Recent results:  

Congratulations this week to Bronwyn Neal and Lynne Talmont for placing 1st E/W and 2nd overall (from 56 pairs) in Sunday’s ABF Novice Pairs event. Well done!

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There was a huge turnout including a few PBC pairs.

Noleen Cregan and Suzanne Cole did very well to come third in the Restricted section.

I played with Patrick Starck (who is stranded in New Caledonia) and we did not do very well in the Open section.

In the first round we played a pair who were designated as ‘world class’. In the second round we played a pair designated as ‘expert’. We were completely annihilated in the second round and Kim Morrison kindly remarked that it was ‘good practice’ for us.

I spent a while wondering if I could make 4H on this board (after going 1 off). 

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Grace's daughter, Robyn Berry, sent us the following: "I hope this message gets to you okay. Mum had lots of friends at the bridge club and it would be nice if you could put it in the newsletter that she turned 100 today as I am sure they would love to know . She still lives in her own unit in Bayview Gardens and keeps okay."

Member and neighbour, Linda Westphal, reported: "She wasn't 100% and waved to us from her window. She was meant to take a ride through part of the Village where she lives but about twenty of us and staff waved to her from across the street. We had great fun waving to her and singing Happy Birthday. The staff had dressed in very bright tutus making it a colourful event."