AGM 2025
The AGM will be held on Zoom on Thursday 27 February 2025 at 6:15pm. We would be enormously grateful if as many members as possible could join us in this important event. We will finish the evening with some online boards starting no later than 7:30pm and concluding at 9:00pm.
Agenda and constitution will be sent by email well in advance.
News
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End-of-year party
We enjoyed a lovely night at Tana and Charles' house on Friday 6 December. It was fun searching through the orchard trees for the lucky playing cards. The resulting prizegiving in the amphitheatre wassurprisingas the winners were revealed! The bounties of Tana's farm were received by many. A special thanks went to Nydia for her work on the Social Bridge this year. Kath played (and paid!) the most bridge so there was a special prize for her too. Lots of conviviality and a great end the year. read more...Tuesday, 17 December 2024 by Jan Robertson -
The Reluctant Directors' Course
On Sunday 17 November, Sati, Tana and Jan did a two-hour course put on by New Zealand Bridge on the 5 most common things Directors get called for during the course of club brdge play. Although our Real Bridge platform and our electronic Tablets on Thursday night mitigate our making many of these errors, like bidding or calling 'out of turn', or making an 'insufficient bid' there was someinteresting learning relating to "Leading out of turn" and "Revoking" (reneging). One thing that we can put... read more...Monday, 18 November 2024 by Jan Robertson -
How we got on in the Loveblock New Zealand Pairs
We were invited to join Waiheke Bridge Club for the Loveblock Nationwide Pairs event held at the Catherine Mitchell Centre on Friday, the 15th of November. It is a tournament held throughout New Zealand at exactly the same time. Everyone plays the same hands which have been put together by top Directors. This event is scored Nationwide and you receive a detailed booklet of how one could have played the hands at the end of the night. There is also detailed analysis of how others bid and played each... read more...Monday, 18 November 2024 by Jan Robertson -
BRIDGENZ PAIRS
This Spring we offered the opportunity to play in a BridgeNZ Pairs event, where we encouraged members to play with the same partner if they could for the three nights. Although we had good numbers playing each night - and there is scoring as usual Scoring with masterpoints justthree pairswere eligible for the Ladder creation at the end of the three nights. Ladder calculated after third night However, this was a trial to see if this is something we could offer each year - perhaps in the Spring... read more...Monday, 21 October 2024 by Jan Robertson -
A fun Social Sunday at Nydia's house - thanks Nydia - and thanks all for playing. Amazing food, wine and bridge was enjoyed by all.
read more...Saturday, 19 October 2024 by Jan Robertson