Melbourne Cup Day

Lots of great outfits for our Melbourne Cup event.  Well done and thank you to all who took part.

The "Dressing Up Day" winners were:

• Best Dressed Lady - Pat Stuart
• Best Dressed Gentleman - James Jones
• Best Hat - Bev Jackson

(photos courtesy of Chris Farrow)

"In Brief"

Neighbours

The above message from Richard Solomon was recently published on the NZBridge website's "All News" page.

Thank you Paraparam - your appreciation is appreciated!!

Speaking of neighbours, this article from "Stuff" about the housing development behind our clubrooms may also be of interest.

Waikanae Junior Pairs

Our annual half day Junior tournament took place on Sunday 2nd November.

The event was very well supported with 15 full tables and players from a wide range of clubs from as far afield as Palmerston North and Wellington.  24 Waikanae members entered the event, including a significant number of  our novice players - well done to them.

I would like to thank everybody who contributed to a great day, but in particular:

• Chris Farrow for his excellent organisation of the event and for also handling the scoring (which was not without incident!)
• Anne Ricketts for directing in her usual calm and relaxed manner
• Vicky Young and Roz King for the catering
• Rae Lutman, Ady Dale and Fiona McDonald-Bates for their general assistance and running the bar

The event was won by the novice pairing of Miriam Tankersley and Victoria Liddicoat from Palmerston North - a great effort from such a young pairing.  In second place were Julie Affleck and Steve Parsons from Otaki, and 3rd were our own Di Andrews and Phil Gavey.  

Outside the top three, the top Novice/Novice pair were David Chalmers (Waikanae) and Corinda Taylor (Paraparaumu) and the top Junior/Novice pair were Ellie Molloy and Angus Kirtlan (Hutt).

(photos courtesy of Chris Farrow)

Many congratulations to all the winners.

Thank you to everyone for your support - I hope you enjoyed your afternoon.

(photo courtesy of Rae Lutman)

Looking for a Home

Anita Humphrey is trying to find a new home for a dog, Millie, whose owner recently passed away.

Anita writes:

Millie is nine years old and has been used to life with an older gentleman who gave her lots of love and attention — though not as much in recent times. None of his family are able to take her, so we’re hoping to find her a new home.

Millie would suit a quiet household, ideally with no cats (she likes to chase them!) and someone who can offer her the companionship she’s used to. She enjoyed regular walks and is a gentle, affectionate wee dog who will likely feel a bit disoriented for a while.

If you, or perhaps someone you know, perhaps has recently lost a dog and isn’t looking for a puppy, please get in touch with me. I’d love to see her go to a caring home rather than to HUHA or the SPCA.

Can anyone help?

Melbourne Cup Day

Melbourne Cup Day Celebration - Monday 3rd November

Next Monday we celebrate Melbourne Cup Day, which coincides with our monthly afternoon tea.

For our new players, to enter into the Cup fever, you may choose to dress up.

There are prizes for best dressed, female and male, and for the best hat.

You may like to place some bets, $2.00, on the horses, prior to the start of bridge.

Please come along and join in the fun!

Kitchen Spring Clean

  

(Photo courtesy of Vicky Young)

Sunday saw a very productive working bee with Vicky Young, Jo Anson, Liz Campbell, Ros King and organiser Nicky Bradley all combining to give our kitchen a "spring clean".  Many thanks to you all.

Items excess to requirements are on a trestle table for members to claim or help themselves to by Friday please.  The rest will go to the op shop.

Thanks are also due to this group plus Ann Edwards and Chris Farrow who prepared for the very enjoyable - and not-at-all fattening - Loveblock Pot Luck dinner on Friday night.  Other members who helped with the clean up, thank you too. Your help is much appreciated.

Paraparaumu Bridge Club

As many will already be aware, Waikanae will be providing Paraparaumu Bridge Club ("PBC") with a "home away from home" from the end of October while their building is undergoing major repairs.  

PBC will be playing the following sessions at Waikanae from 28th October until 14th December (this timeframe may possibly extend into the New Year depending on progress with their works programme):

These days and times have been arranged to avoid clashes with Waikanae sessions and with other users of our clubroom, such as the Quilters and Guides.

Additionally, PBC members may choose to attend Waikanae sessions during this period, at which I know you will make them welcome. Should they wish to do so they will be able to buy Waikanae session cards for this purpose.  If Waikanae members wish to join PBC sessions, payment will be in accordance with PBC's normal arrangements.

PBC will be "paying for the privilege" of using our clubrooms, and as such will make full use of our facilities including supplies of tea, coffee, milk, etc.  They will use our computer for scoring, but will deal their own boards and store them in our clubroom (separately from Waikanae boards). Space will also be allocated on our noticeboard for PBC use.

If Waikanae members have questions or issues about any of this please do not hesitate to contact either me or Rae Lutman.  PBC members will be asked to raise any issues with their own Committee members, who will refer them to us for resolution if necessary.

Please do whatever you can to make PBC members feel at home during this unavoidable period of disruption for them.