We will be having a dinner get-together for all Peninsula members participating in the Canberra Summer Festival of Bridge 2020. I have made a provisional booking at Bamiyan on 62/10 Lonsdale St, Braddon, for Sunday 12 January at 7pm. Bamiyan is a wonderful Afghani restaurant, an easy 10 minute walk from the Rex. It is licensed but you may also BYO – corkage $3 pp.
As it is a very busy time in Canberra, I need to confirm numbers by 30 December so please email me ASAP at
Look forward to seeing you all in Canberra!
Heidi Colenbrander
What a day!! As Sue, our fabulous director said, ‘it was the best Melbourne Cup Day ever at PBC’. Great fun with friends, fabulous hats, fantastic food and wine, sweeps and of course, the reason we all come together as a club, bridge.
Vivien has loaded some pictures which you can see here.
Congratulations to all the fashionistas who made so much of an effort and special congratulations to our best dressed lady Katherine, a visitor to the club and friend of Beverly Schultz.
The 2019 Committee invited all our wonderful volunteers to drinks and nibbles at the Dee Why Grand hotel on Thursday 12 December to say thank you! See the flier.
While the numbers were not large in comparison with the huge number of members who do volunteer at the club, it was a great chance to chat with others who might contribute in a completely different way.
If the 2020 Committee agrees, some kind of volunteer "thank you" event might become a regular tradition. There were more photos of the event (thank you Jen Ardill!) posted on our Facebook group.
Eleven tables played in our NSWBA UHMP Championship final on Friday 29 November, with the boards scored across the state. The state wide results are now available together with the details of the event.
Congratulations to Sandy Carter and Nerida Gillies who came second in the 25-50MP category, each winning a Bridge Shop voucher and a subscription to the Novice edition of the Australian Bridge magazine.
On the same link the NSWBA event organiser invites comments from any participant, in the lead up to the event being held again in November 2020.
Lots of food and lots of friendly faces at this year’s Christmas Party. Check out the photos!
Thanks to all those volunteers who helped – you are the club’s Christmas present to our members.
(And particular thanks to Gayle who dropped out of playing on the day to fill in for the expected help who was unexpectedly ill on the day! And also to Andrew Ikin for doing all sorts of unexpected tasks on the day - David.)
Congratulations to Bronwyn Neal and Lynne Talmont who won the 2019 U10 Individual event, played over the year on the first Wednesday of the month from March through November. Each individual's best seven scores count. This is the first major event in which many of our newer players compete.
Bronwyn and Lynne won the event as equal first ahead of Anthony Colenbrander, and then in equal fourth place, Janelle Halliwell and Cathy Nelson.
The event will be repeated in 2020 for those with less than 10MP at the start of the year.
Check the latest Australian Bridge Federation Newsletter.
Items include: Workshops With Will: William Jenner-O’Shea, ABF Marketing Report: Peter Cox, ABF Education: Joan Butts, Bridge Vid: Peter Hollands, The Value Of Four Trumps: Mike Lawrence, Coaching Cathy At Contract: David Lusk, A Game At The Club: Barbara Travis, Australian Open Playoff: Sartaj Hans, Spring Nationals: Liam Milne & Ron Klinger, Improve Your Defence: Ron Klinger, Suit Combinations: Brad Coles, Bridge Into The 21st Century: Paul Lavings, How Would You Play? Barbara Travis, ABF Youth Initiatives: Leigh Gold, Around The Clubs...
Enjoy.
Congratulations to Hans van Weeren, winner of the 2019 Jean Stebbins Trophy, ahead of Alan Davies and Anne Small.
The Stebbins is a four week individual event with entrants needing to play with different partners for each week. The best three scores count.
The first ten places together with their average % score (of their best three) are as follows:
