tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1946618861753626042.post-22706171288741107632008-02-20T02:07:00.000-08:002008-02-20T08:26:16.686-08:00<span style="font-family:verdana;">I was spoilt rotten on Valentines Day - cup of tea and a card in bed in the morning, a beautiful bouquet of flowers AND a lovely dinner in my favourite restaurant. Aren't I the lucky one to have a Mark around :-) </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">And so we are heading towards the end of February - with an extra day tagged on this year. We have been enjoying some wonderful weather though, brilliant sunshine, which has enticed me into the garden to start clearing at one end to create a vegetable patch! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">We have been working on some fun new mapping software (well, Mark has been doing the work, and tearing his hair out over it at times!!); it will be used to display the whereabouts of clubs planning to play in the national Simultaneous Pairs, and the first time will be for the </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">Charity Challenge </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">- just <a href="http://www.ecatsbridge.com/sims/results.asp?eventid=chch08&amp;future=true">click here</a> to get to the right page.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">And on the bridge front - well, I have sent out the material for the </span><a href="http://www.ecatsbridge.com/sims/charitychallenge/default.asp"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Charity Challenge</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> and the </span><a href="http://www.ecatsbridge.com/sims/bgb/default.asp"><span style="font-family:verdana;">BGB April Simultaneous Pairs</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> ... these are not limited to UK clubs incidentally, so if any of you clubs "out there" want to join us, do get in touch. I have typeset the booklets for the World Wide ... now that really IS a world wide event, and we hope clubs from everywhere will come and join us for that one; again, email me if you are interested and we can set it up for you.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I have put a bit of information up about Pau and the </span><a href="http://www.ecatsbridge.com/Events/ebl/2008PauFrance/default.asp"><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;">European Championships</span></strong></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> for those of you heading for France in the summer (please note, all you teams, that I need the systems registered with me by 10th May ... including the Seniors this time!), and there is a lot about the <strong><a href="http://www.ecatsbridge.com/Events/wbf/2008beijing/default.asp">World Mind Sport Games</a></strong> in Beijing of course. And please remember the </span><a href="http://www.bboitalia.it/festival/"><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;">Womens' Bridge Festival Online</span></strong></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> - do email your female friends and tell them about that one, please !!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Finally - did you know that I organise mailing lists ? At the moment I have one for information about Beijing - so that when I put up new details, or get additional information I can let people know, I have another for TDs, so as I get more information about the Laws or appeals or things that might interest TDs and so forth ... or if you have a particular area of interest, let me know and I will think about setting up a separate mailing list about it! Within reason of course :-) Anyway, if you want to be added to my Beijing or TD list, </span><a href="mailto:anna@ecats.co.uk"><span style="font-family:verdana;">drop me an email</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> and let me know, remembering to tell me who you are and which country you are in please !</span>annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04881897172383481508noreply@blogger.com