Framlingham BC is a small friendly and relaxed Duplicate Bridge Club established in 1977.   The club is affiliated to the Suffolk Contract Bridge Association (SCBA) and to the English Bridge Union (EBU) and membership of the club automatically enrolls you as a member of the two higher parent organisations.  The annual club membership of £5.00 covers membership of the other two.  Please see 'Information' in the menu panel for further details times etc.

Monday afternoons.  This session is intended for experienced players but don't let the word 'experienced' put you off.   The average standard of Monday players is NGS 7or 8 and our two highest rated players are a modest NGS 10.  So long as you can play a solid no frills game you'll be winning trophies here in no time.

Wednesday afternoons This is a duplicate session with fewer (usually 18) boards played than on Monday afternoons.  EBU master points are not awarded because we take a more relaxed view of the laws of the game and there is a less competitive atmosphere in order to help and encourage less experienced players who wish to improve or to provide a gentle reintroduction to the game for those who may not have played for a while.  It's also there for members who seek no more than an social afternoon of bridge.  There is no obligation to move up to play on Mondays although we hope this will happen naturally as Wednesday players become more experienced.  Some Monday players also play on Wednesdays but do so in the relaxed ethos of the session.  We do not at present offer teaching at any level so you must be able to play at least a basic game in order to take part. Feel free to drop in on your own to watch a bit of play and get a feel for the club, existing club members have done just that before deciding to join us.

All visitors are welcome but you will need to come with a partner or please contact Richard Goble on 07765910637 or Glyn Button 01728 831647 and they will try to find you a partner via the Club's WhatsApp group because we almost always have a club member who is in need of one.

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Such a threadbare attendance as we had today might have inspired director Charles to make comparisons with colour sergeant Bourne (as portrayed by Nigel Green in the 1964 film Zulu) looking along the depleted ranks before him as he prepared to call the post-battle roll and Charles steeled himself to make his own opening remarks.  Then again it probably didn't what with this not being South Africa in 1879 and there being a noticeable dearth of thousands of very irritated Zulus.  Thus it was left to the rest of us to fill that role as Stuart and Stanley fired their withering volleys and send us home with no more than a biscuit to show for our martial efforts and salve our wounded pride.  Spoiler alert; colour sergeant Frank Bourne was actually just 24 years old and in 1879 the youngest colour sergeant in the British army about half as old as he was portrayed by Nigel Green.  Bet you're glad now that we had only four tables today.

Such a threadbare attendance as we had today might have inspired director Charles to make comparisons with colour sergeant Bourne (as portrayed by Nigel Green in the 1964 film Zulu) looking along th ..........

Just one week ago the Webmaster confessed to being on the point of running out of superlatives to describe the seemingly unstoppable improvement in winning performances.  Seven days on and it has come to pass that not one but two pairs tore through the 70% barrier today.  It was a neck and neck race to see which would top the 100 mark first, the sweating session leaders or the steadily climbing thermometer.  The thermometer won easily in the end while the rest of the field wilted in the roiling superheated wake of the leaders and focused on the increasingly remote prospect of avoiding heatstroke while we tried and failed to recall the bliss of a cold refreshing drink.  Congratulations to Stuart and Stanley and to Lindsay and Sally for producing outstanding results in the most trying of circumstances demonstrating that when the going gets tough the tough truly do get going.

Just one week ago the Webmaster confessed to being on the point of running out of superlatives to describe the seemingly unstoppable improvement in winning performances.  Seven days on and it has come ..........