| The Lillias Simpson Trophy Winners 2023/4 |
The KoLBC club champions, John Mills and Jennifer Frances, receiving the Lillias Simpson Trophy for 2023/24 at the club AGM in May ‘24.
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| CaféBridge24 in Plockton, winners and runners up. |
Home team, Miriam Drysdale and David McLeod, won the Martin Cup scoring 68.47%.
Inverness pair, Anne Lyod and Scott Rae, were runners up
The weather for Kyle of Lochalsh BC’s 6th CB day on the 24th October was windy and wild. But the rain held off and with 60 players for the traditional ’Night before’ event and the 88 for the actual day, it was a very lively 24 hours! Loads more photos up in an album. Tap here to view.
Diane Hardy and Robin Hamilton, visitors from London, came third.
Huge thanks to our tournament director Victor Lesk for all he provided!
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| 6th KoLBC CaféBridge Day in Plockton |
The ‘Night Before’ pairs tournament, a full house in the Plockton village hall was won by N/S Sara and Robert Spode. London visitors, mother and daughter team, Liz and Barbra Hellyar won E/W.
Liz seen here collecting the prize bottles for her mum. 
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| ♣️♦️Killin 2024 Bridge Break♥️♠️ |
♣ ♦ A great time was had by all!!♥ ♠
Sixteen enthusiastic bridge players from the Kyle of Lochalsh Bridge Club, visited Killin Hotel last week, for an intensive teaching bridge holiday with our local professional teacher/player Mark Lincoln as lecturer.
Mark gave us a challenging 2 day programme of seminars, play and review, including Hand Evaluation, Competitive Bidding and Winning Tactics. High power stuff indeed!
Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the course: the ambiance, food, rooms and staff in the Killin Hotel, were all exemplary. Thank you, Killin. We had a ball, and we’ll be back!
The happy connection between Mark and the Skye and Lochalsh players began in 2020 when he kindly helped our small but active club to play online during COVID, allowing us to continue playing this wonderful mind sport while stuck in our homes, thus preserving our sanity!
Now we’ve bounced back, playing Face2Face twice a week in Kyleakin and once a week on RealBridge.
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| Festival of Bridge: It's a big deal! 9-15 Sept., 2024 |
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🎊♠♥🎉Festival of Bridge🎉♦♣🎊
The first-ever Festival of Bridge – It’s a Big Deal!, taking place 9-15 September this year across Scotland and England, promises to be an exciting celebration of the game for all bridge enthusiasts. The Festival aims to foster awareness and interest in bridge as a mindsport for all ages and abilities, as well as raising funds for Cancer Research UK. Our goal is to raise £10,000 in Scotland during the Festival of Bridge.
The Festival will be held as a series of events nationwide - in clubs, halls and homes across the country. Here's a flavour of what’s on the cards – pop-up bridge, pot-luck partner evenings, bridge marathons, twinned-town matches, taster bridge & brownie sessions, bring a buddy to bridge, bridge in a day, black tie bridge, charity lunches, bonkers bridge and much more.
Any ideas for our own club - leave them in the comments below!!
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| Furthest travelled award? |
We’re not sure exactly what the chocolate orange prize was for….maybe the furthest travelled? It was lovely to welcome long distance members Harriet and Guido Galantes looking much bigger than they appear on RealBridge! 
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| Renewal of KoLBC membership |
Its time to renew your annual Club Membership.
The membership fee for 23/24 has been set at £15.00 – this includes the £12.00 fee for membership of the Scottish Bridge Union which the Club pays direct to the SBU on your behalf. It would be helpful if renewals could be made by the end of this month if possible.
To pay for your membership please either transfer the £15 fee to the Club’s bank account – or you can pay it to John MacDonald if attending a regular Club night. The bank account details are as follows:-
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Name of Account
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KYLE OF LOCHALSH BRIDGE CLUB
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Sort Code
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80-22-60
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Account Number
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16670263
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| Winners of the CaféBridge Day in Plockton |
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Plockton CaféBridge, Pat Bohan and Mark Sheiham from London. 
Second pair were Edinburgh pair, the new SBU Chair Sarah Gunn with Marina Evans. Our Mary Jane Campbell with Glasgow visitor Marion MacPhee came third closely followed by the Terry’s. Well done everyone!
Huge thanks to Tournament Directors Victor Lesk and Caroline Bottoms.
it was a super day in the sunshine with bridgers coming from Aberlour to Abergavenny! From Bridport to Sconser….
Extremely well hosted by the Plockton Hall committee. The Plockton Hall Roof Fund will receive £1,500 from the two events; The Night Before and the Day.
Marie Perry from North Berwick who won the VERY special bottle of whisky with the red 9 of Hearts was extremely delighted. Donated by the hall committee chair Jimmy Ferguson, the Pick a Card game raised £540.
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| Plockton CaféBridge Prizewinners |
Shuna Colville and Bob Ross Winners of The Martin Cup
Runners Up Eddie McGeough and Angela Knox
Third pair Ned Paul and Barbara Humphries
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| Welcome back! |
The Spodes were back in the Highlands! They didn’t pick up the potatoes at Dunkeld nor the gold at Plockton….but they DID pick up the Sunday night trophy! Now that’s an annual triumph by KoLBC at the Newtonmore Swiss weekend.
 Robert and Sara Spode in a team with Allison Dunn and David Pollard from Oban
And Robert kept everyone well entertained in the Manse….
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