The Académie des Petits Musiciens (https://academiedespetitsmusiciens.com) will be coming to the Club on Sunday 17 Nov at 11 am to hold another musical workshop, which is already fully subscribed.
L’Académie des Petits Musiciens (https://academiedespetitsmusiciens.com) will be coming to the club regularly: two Sundays a month for a 1.5hr workshop (from 11 to 12:30) for 3-7 year-olds (as they have previously) during the school year. It will be tied with the English Breakfast and Sunday Brunch so if there is a breakfast or brunch, there will be a music class (but not during the school holidays).
The arrangement is that if a child is signed up for the breakfast or brunch together with a parent they have free access to the 1.5 hr class. If you don’t want to sign up for the breakfast/brunch, it is €25 per child for the class but payment will still be via the appropriate Breakfast/Brunch HelloAsso link.
Basically, there will be a workshop if there is a brunch or breakfast during the school calendar.
Please see the main article for a poster.
The Académie des Petits Musiciens (https://academiedespetitsmusiciens.com) will be coming to the Club on Sunday 13 Oct at 11 am to give a musical workshop to 1-5 year-olds. It is for members only and free. The session lasts 45 minutes. We can form a group of up to 10 children but, if there is enough demand, we can split the groups into 1-3 years and 3-5 years (11:00-11:45 and 11:50-12:35) which would open it up to 20 children. Please email if you would like to join.
Please see the main article for some videos taken of Lewis Hammond's Flying Fishes Choir in action
Club hours
Monday to Thursday: 8 am to 9 pm; Friday: 8 am to 10 pm
Saturday: 9 am to 10 pm; Sunday: 9 am to 9 pm
Bar hours
(Bar closes 15 minutes before the Club closes)
Monday to Thursday: 11 am to 8:45 pm; Friday: 11 am to 9:45 pm
Saturday: 10 am to 9:45 pm; Sunday: 10 am to 8:45 pm.
The Section's Summer Open Eclectic Competition is open and running from 1 July to 30 August at the Villarceaux Golf Club.
Participants submitted 6 scorecards during this period from which a best composite score was calculated. The winners were:
1st prize – Emile Freiha
2nd prize - Frederic Thiriet
3rd prize – David Colson
This September's weekend was held this year at Omaha Beach Golf Club, Port en Bessin in Normandy from 13th to 15th September and was blessed with fantastic weather for the full 3 days.
The Kiwi Cup (best net score) and the Dean trophy (best gross) were both won by Frédéric Thiriet with a magnificent 39pts and 16pts respectively.
Ian Jones and Muriel Jones won 2nd and 3rd place net respectively with 35 and 34pts.
The Finals were played over two days:
- Mixed Doubles Final on Friday at 7 pm: Clotilde & Arnaud Paquier defeated Maximilien & Georgina Marrisson.
- Men's Doubles Final on Saturday at 4.30 pm: Philippe Vignal & Melvin Cooke defeated Raphael Imbert & Paul Rebaud
Read on for a picture of the winners!
Two courses have now been set up: :
* For children born between 2017 and 2020: classes on Saturdays from 1:45 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
* For children born between 2006 and 2016: classes on Saturdays from 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
Please use this link to register your children for the 2024/2025 season and pay the fees:
https://www.helloasso.com/associations/taekwondo-club-saint-germain-paris/adhesions/inscription-tkd-csg-2024-25
A reduction code is available for SAC members - see the Taekwondo WhatsApp group.
A paper registration form is also available here.
We attended the “Belts Grading” (Belts promotion) ceremony of our Taekwondo students at the Lavoisier gymnasium in Paris on Saturday 7 December.
Congratulations to everyone for your success and your new belt.
Click here for a picture of the event.
Delicious terrines (Salmon 10€, Rillettes de canard 12€), served with pickles, capers, olives, artisanal pita bread, tomatoes, cherries & crackers
Click here to see the choices.
Big winners of the Section's Tournament were - Richard and Leon in EW - with 62.5% and Ghislaine and Raphael in NS -- with 60%. 2nd in NS: Nicole (Devaux) & Jean-Paul - with 55.83% and in EW: Jane & Hughette with 53.75%. (Click here for the full results.)
See the main article for details of other prizes that were awarded for play during the year.
Many thanks to Carole Gressier for her invaluable help with the cocktail; Maureen and Joan for their help in preparing the rooms; Anne Raynaud for duplicating the boards, and all of you who took part and lent a hand in clearing away at the end of the tournament.
For the answers to the quiz on "Strong opening bids", click here.
The October tournament will be on Tuesday 15 October.
Our next tournament is scheduled for Tuesday 11 March, starting at 2:30 pm.
Before that, at 2 pm we'll go through the quiz (see the main article) "Replies to the 2-Diamond Game-Forcing Bid" ("Réponses à 2K Forcing Manche").
The tournament will be followed as usual by a little cocktail.
Here are the "Section" results of our tournament: RESULTATS_20240521.pdf. In due course, the FFB will send the nationwide results of this Simultané Ronde de France. Well done to Anne (Raynaud) and Luc, 1st in NS with 59.58%! Judy and Jenny came 1st in EW with 62.08% and there was a tie for 2nd place in EW between Jane & Lucie and Dougie & Ian, both pairs scoring 57.92%; Ghislaine and Nicole (Doyle) coming 2nd in NS with 56.67%.
Many thanks to Maureen, Christine Butterworth, and Anne (R) for their different contributions.
We are proposing Tuesday 18 June for the next tournament.. However, since there would appear to be many absentees, please let Jenny know as soon as possible how many of you can or cannot attend.
Click here for the Section and Nationwide results of the last Tuesday's tournament.
Warmest congratulations to Francis and Raphael, 1st in NS and Jean (Pal) and Max, 1st in EW; 2nd in NS - Nicole and Jean-Paul, 2nd in EW - Carole and François.
Please note the date of our next tournament - Tuesday 12 November, same time, same place.
(Read on for much information in the main article.)
Don't forget to renew your FFB Licences.
The next tournament will be on Tuesday, 8 April at 2.30 pm). See the main article for the new quiz.
The full results of the March tournament are also in the main article (and also the March quiz answers).
The next tournament will be on Tuesday 14 January 2025. The afternoon will start with the Section's Annual General Meeting at 2 pm and play will begin at 2.30; followed by a cocktail at the end of the afternoon.
Please come forward with any candidates for the Committee or motions to propose. For the moment there is nothing special on the agenda; click here to see the draft (a Word document).
Click here for a copy of the provisional minutes of the 2023 AGM (to be voted on..).
And, last but not least, click here for the quiz on "Game-trial bids" (Les enchères d'essai) which we might have time to go through after the SAC Bridge Section AGM. (Or see it in the main article.)
To finish off this year's bridge here are the details of the 2 books that Jenny strongly recommends and the corrections to December's Quiz:
Bien En hérir en Défense de Michel Bessis et Norbert Lébely (chez Le Bridgeur, 2012)
- the title speaks for itself
2 Faible et Dépendances de Veronique et Michel Bessis (chez Le Bridgeur, 2007)
- covers the "Weak Two openings" + defence against them, and the strong "2 Club" and "2 Diamond" openings.
Please click here for the correction of December's quiz.
Here are the SAC Section results (see main article). Brilliant scores by Marie-Claire and Pascale with 62.42% in East-West, and Anne and Joyce in North-South with 59.58%. The best seconds are Dougie and Claude in EW with 58.33%.
Thanks to Christine and Carole for their help in preparing our cocktail, to Monica for cooking such delicious finger food and to Joan and Maureen and everyone else for your help in preparing the rooms and putting everything away so rapidly!
The next tournament is planned for Tuesday 11 February.
The Quiz corrections have been added at the end of the main article.
Click here for the Section and Nationwide results of our November tournament. There were several really good scores this time - Marie-Helene and Jenny coming 1st in NS, followed by Ghislaine & Raphael (63.39%), Josette and Remy (59.82%, Ann J. and Alain (58.63); and first in East-West Carole & Francois with 60.71%, 2nd - Claudia & Maureen (59.82%) and 3rd - Simone & Jean-Francois (56.85%).
Thanks to Maureen and Joan for their help with preparations, and to Carole Gressier and Christine Butterworth for the brilliant preparation of our cocktail!
The answers to November's Quiz are in the main article, and you will also find December's Quiz..
Our next tournament will be on Tuesday 10 December.