The Mayor invited our Brunswick visitors and the Chairman of the Bath Twinning Society to the Guildhall to admire the treasures and hear a bit about the local history.  A comment was overheard that the Banqueting Hall and its magnificent chandelliers would be a very nice place to play bridge!

Here are the flower girls.  A lovely bouquet for Judy Spencer (right) for organising this twinning event, and Christine MacFarlane for organising the bridge games.  Not pictured are Judith Thomas and her band of catering elves, Stewart and Stephen tending the bar, and Philippa and Julian for organising wine and generally helping out.

Some of our bridge players in deep thought.  Under the festive hats are mini computers helping them count how many trumps are still out!

Bridge and Games welcomed eleven visitors from Brunswick the first week of July.  Here they are pictured with some of our club members beneath our resident dinosaur.  See 'photographs' for more details.

Here is Frank explaining the Rule of Eleven to the players; "Rule of Eleven says: that is the number of tricks you are likely to make when you bid 6NT".

Our social weekend at Llandrindod Wells was a great success.  The hotel was lovely and the sun shone for us.  Here are our winners:
Friday Welcome Pairs: Kerri Sant and Dee Moss
Saturday Swiss Pairs: Pam Carwardine and Christine Ware
Teams: Richard Hill, Celia Porter, Rosa Phillips, Ann Brett.

Congratulations to Frank on reaching the ripe old age of 60, and for his imaginative choice of cakes.  Maybe Gina had something to do with this too?  There was a wonderful turnout for the birthday celebration.  Note Frank's style of bidding; players beware!

Over the last couple of weeks our bridge players have been donating money for the Nepal Disaster Fund.  We have collected £135.54 and have added some of the profits from the recent workshops to make this up to £400.  Here is Christine presenting the cheque to Bob Draper who has been leading the fund raising efforts for the Disaster Emergency Committee on behalf of BRLSI.  A big thank you to everyone who contributed.

We had a record 54 attendees for our autumn social weekend at Paignton.  Not eveyone played bridge but it was good to see so many partners enjoying the seaside and social atmosphere.  Here are our bridge players - still smiling but looking forward to having a rest!  It was nice to see some 'first timers' and hope they will join us again.

We are booked to come again next year: dates are 28th to 30th October 2016.  Mark your calendars now.

From Minibridge to Stayman in just three days!  Here are our Summer School graduates of 2015 all ready to start playing bridge and looking forward to applying their newfound skills.  It was a pleasure to welcome some 'youthful' recruits this year.  We are pleased to be able to offer a discount to all our events to students aged up to 25.  All new players are welcome to come and play on a Monday afternoon; we will have special boards for you to practice with.  Start time is 1.45pm.

Our intrepid bridge players braved the sunshine of Paignton for yet another year of wonderful weather, fine food and bequilling bridge!  We look forward to seeing you all again in 2015.

Here are some of our festive teams players getting ready for the big game.

A big thank you to all the Paignton attendees for the beautiful flowers and tasty champagne.  It was a very kind thought and much appreciated.