Monday at 6.30am I leave home to start another of my Bridge-It Jane Flying Seminar Tours.  Arranged before I was elected to the Board, I am off to the Canterbury Region to address their Regional Conference and visit some of their smaller clubs to listen to how they are going and offer any help I can.  New Regional Bridge Mate Richard Williams comes out to two of the clubs with me and is at the Regional Conference.

We all enjoyed having Margaret back at Bridge tonight and helping her celebrate her 95th birthday (actual date 1 October).  Until last year Margaret played Monday, Wednesday and Thursday most weeks so it was wonderful to see her back at the club tonight and I was privileged to play with her.

Cambridge has been well represented in this weekend's National Open Restricted Pairs which was held at the Distinction Hotel in Te Rapa. Jane Stearns  & Di Emms finished 7th with solid results in all four sessions while Kate McFadyen & Gwyn Lobb came 18th followed by Clare Coles & Kevin Whyte in 22nd place out of a field of 62 pairs.

Our very own Eunice Eccles has been appointed one of seven Regional Bridge Mates (RBMs) in the country. (RBMs are distinct from the Bridgemate tabletop devices we use at the club.) They are a newly implemented concept of Jane Stearns who was elected to the NZ Board on the back of the work she has been doing these last five years rejuvenating memberships of clubs in decline.

On Friday 22 Sep we enjoyed our final round of The Waikato Interclub Teams more fondly known as TWITs.

A belated congratulations to Michael Neels and Eunice Eccles for leading the way in the Open-Junior section of the Rotorua Open Restricted competition on Saturday. Coming 5th overall they really did themselves proud scoring 56% in the morning and 55% in the afternoon. Very consistent!

A well deserved win to Clare and Kevin for consistent play throughout this series.  Their average result of 67.59 was 7.82 ahead of the rest of the field and sets a real challenge to the rest of the club for next year.   It was a real close finish for second, third and fourth. Carol Wilson and Joyce Catchpole, Michael Neels and Jane Stearns, and Jan Spaans and Don Wilson (who had a whacking 72.69 on the last night) only had .68 separating them.