Bill sent this last year; I should have put it here then, apologies:

From: Bill Barclay
Date: 3 July 2014 at 14:19
Subject: Re: BFBC:AGM 7/7/14
To: Mary
Cc: Ann Lloyd

Mary,

Please accept my apologies for the AGM:  I have a previous engagement!  I have no issues that I wish to have raised and am happy to cast my vote in favour of the committee nominations, if absentee votes are permitted!  I should like to place on record my thanks to the committee members for the work they do on our behalf to provide us with a thriving and friendly club where we are able to enjoy our Bridge.  Clubs like this do not run themselves but rely on a degree of hard work and commitment by selfless people who are prepared to beaver away in the background - often without reward or recognition.  Thank you all.

Bill

Sent from my iPad

From Inverness

Dear All

Thank you very much for the marvellous send-off you gave me a few weeks ago. I was very touched by all the good wishes you gave me and by all the nice things Graham said. Thank you so much for the very smart proper chef's apron (already much admired), for the tea towel with the motto and for the Debenhams tokens.It was very generous of you and I'm looking forward to spending them, not quite sure on what …..maybe some new wine glasses; I love glass.

I miss you all very much, even though The Ness Bridge Club has been very welcoming, but I'm sure I'm right to come back to Scotland. It feels right. So, please stay in touch and please come and visit. I don't want to lose contact! Will let you know once I've bought a house.

Love to all

Ann X

New web site

The new web site is now fully up and running, and last night's results have been posted to it.

A few people commented that (until this morning) it had some very old results on it. That's because I set up the site from a template on my own laptop, which hasn't seen a "live" BFBC result in years. This is no longer a problem now that I have uploaded a newer result. However, it occurs to me that the site also has the last individual and teams results on it and these will also be very old. It would be quite a hassle for me to dig out the last individual and teams results and repost them and this problem will resolve itself as and when we re-run those competitions and post new results. I therefore propose to do nothing about it unless anyone feels very strongly that the individual and teams results need to be updated.

Please let me know if you have any other problems with the new web site.

Keith

Our web site is moving

This is an advanced warning. You don't need to take any action right now.

For many years, the Bracknell Forest Bridge Club web site has been living in spare space on the Bracknell Bridge League's (BBL) web site. This arrangement worked well while I was on the committees of both organisations and saved us a bob or two, because it was free. Unfortunately, I shall be stepping down from the BBL committee at the end of April, which means I can no longer guarantee to be privy to the necessary passwords to post information on the BBL web site. Our club therefore needs a site of its own.

I am currently in the process of setting this up. The address of the new club web site will be BFBridge.org.uk (but that site isn't ready for viewing yet). If I can get it sorted by next Monday then I will make a further announcement at club night. Otherwise, watch this blog for updates.

I am sorry that this will mean you may need to update any links to the club's web site that you have saved in your browser's "favourites" or bookmarks lists but I think our new web address is simpler and therefore more memorable.

When I have created the new site, I shall try to make the old site auto-redirect to the new one in case anyone forgets over the next few weeks.

Keith

Scoring problems

The more attentive of you may have noticed a provisional result appear earlier today. This was based on the results from players' score cards. However, there were a number of inconsistencies and less than legible cards, leading to a small amount of guess work.

Since then, I finally sussed out what the problem was with the results. Without going into too much detail, there must have been a Bridgemate table unit in the box that still contained results from 15th December. For some reason, this decided to wake up and post those results (which conflicted with the new ones) to the server last night. After deleting the erroneous results, I was able to read the rest of the data from the Bridgemate system and that was how I generated the revised result now on the web site.

If there are still any errors in this result, please let me know as soon as possible.

Keith

Hotel breaks

I just received an advertising poster from a company offering bridge hotel breaks. If you're interested, go the members' area on the club web site. Keith

Sorry it's taken so long to produce a result from last Monday (22nd December 2014); I think Christmas happened!

Full results and hand details may appear on the website before tomorrow's (29th's) results get posted but I'm not sure. If you want details of the hands for the 22nd Dec, please let me know and I'll get hold of them and e-mail them to you.

  Pairs Result

Position		Pair		Names		Score	Played	Percent
1		5		Chris Williams & Steve Hollister		149.2	20	74.60
2		2		Martin Wilson & Gordon Wyles		116.6	20	58.30
3		4		Peter Muggridge & Philip Jackson		114.2	20	57.10
4		1		Chris Purvis & Dave Calcutt		106.4	20	53.20
5		14		Les Anthony & Simon Kearon		105	20	52.50
6		7		Chris Collin & John Walton		102.4	20	51.20
7		3		Mary Harvey & Elaine Longstaff		96.2	20	48.10
8		8		Bob Findlow & Joan Findlow		96	20	48.00
9		6		John Goss & Andrew Stanley		103	22	46.82
10		10		Bob Williams & Marge Williams		89.6	20	44.80
11		13		Roy Neal & Gill Hughes		92	22	41.82
12		11		Elizabeth Treadgold & Sydney Treadgold		77.4	20	38.70
13		9		Ann Francis & Peter Francis		72	20	36.00