The tournament was very well attended with over 40 members present. Guests from the Norfolk Bridge Association and Mrs Gabrielle Hubbard were also welcomed.

We played a pivot movement, finishing at 12.45 for lunch.  At 2.00 we continued play again until approximately 4.00.

In recognition for his time, effort and skills, given to club over the years, Bill presented Ron Hunt with a small gift with thanks from the whole club. 

More photos available on Notice Board

Prizes presented by Gillian Hall - Norfolk  Bridge Association

WINNERS:                                                                          LOWEST SCORE 'WINNERS' 

North            Gabrielle Hubbard         6210                           North      Pam Lockwood    -2330

South           Rae Tuffen                    1610                          South      Christine Summers         -3950

East             Robert Harber               1360                           East        Betty Rossi          -2180

West            Jane Bolton                   1960                          West        Dianne Harber    -2560

Prizes presented by Chairman Bill Broughton.

WINNERS:                                                             LOWEST SCORE 'WINNERS'

North     Matt Jackson           1120                           North     Maisie Tansey     -2690

South     Maureen Gittins       2620                          South      Joy Cole              -1130

East       Ron Boote                2220                          East       Jeff Cole              -1700

West      Christine Ferguson   1350                         West      Anne Goddard      -2630

This was an extremely well attended evening.  Refreshments were offered on arrival, before settling down to play bridge. 

A Pivot movement was played until we stopped for the buffet. 

The food, having been supplied by the good members of the club, was magnificent, with tables groaning from the various choices of savouries and sweets.

During this evening we presented gifts to a very special member Bill Greenhill - see other news item.

The evening was completed with prize giving for the winners and losers.

Finally there was a very generous raffle, with prizes also donated by members.

The club was very pleased to send all monies raised from the raffle to the Quiddenham Children's Hospice.

(Buffet table with members having a good time)

The Club couldn't go without celebrating the birthday of this most well respected member, Bill Greenhill.  He won't mind the world knowing that he is now 90 years young and what an inspiration he is.  In this photo you can see him with Tessa (Shingler) and Bill (Broughton) with Jenny (Pearce) taking the photo.

Tessa gave us some wonderful anecdotes of Bill's life in and around Horning with some very intersting details of his links to the diocese of Norwich and St Benet's Abbey.

This celebration added to the further enjoyment of the evening.

Suzanne, sent her congratulations and was sorry she couldn't be there

On December 14th this Press Release was sent through to the Club.

"The 6th ECatsBridge Simultaneous Pairs bridge tournament for Children in Need was held over five nights from Friday 9 November until Thursday 15 November 2007.

466 Heats were held over five evenings with a total of 8,474 pairs (16,948 individual players) competing.  Bridge Clubs from Borswana, Croatia, Singapore, Spain, Tunisia and Zambia joined clubs across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales to raise £55,349.80.

Organiser Anna Gudge paid tribute to all the players who have contributed since she launched the event in 2002, "Its' official - bridge players are wonderful!.   Thank you all so so much ... do you realise that over the past 6 years you have raised £283,753.37 for Children in Need... you are totally amazing.""

See up to date Results by clicking on the email address>Sims Events>Recently Finalised Events

Notes from SanFrancisco. - Graham Grist.

'We all visited Las Vegas for a night on the way to the Grand Canyon.  Suzanne took a day tour down the beautiful Pacific Highway to Carmel and Monterey, of Clint Eastwood fame.

Suzanne took a great number of pictures.  Hopefully she will be able to supply a few pictures for the website, along with more information.

We played in 10 events out of the 200 that make up the 10 day North American Bridge Championship, scoring points in 7 of them." 

www.acbl.org/play/recent-results.php