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Anna Gudge(b 1946)

Secretary to the British Bridge League 1984 - 1999 when the BBL devolved into its constituent Unions. Works free-lance as a bridge administrator with a wide breadth of knowledge of the game and its hierarchy.

Has special expertise in organising Simultaneous Pairs events and with her business partner, Mark Newton, has developed an online scoring system used for all British events and to be used for the World Wide Simultaneous Pairs.

Winner English National Womens Teams 1986, but rarely plays bridge now.

IBPA International Bridge Personality of the Year 2000 the first woman ever to win the award.

Main hobbies: reading, writing, cooking (and eating), theatre, travel, red wine, BIG fireworks, parties and anything else that seems interesting and fun to do at the time.

Has 2 daughters, 1 granddaughter and 4 cats.

Lives in a railway station - platform 1 is the house, platform 2 is the office. Has been known to put the answer phone on when weather is hot and take swim in pool between platforms.

Drives a Chrysler Grand Voyager, which looks like an FBI surveillance vehicle.

Cheerful and optimistic disposition with a tendency to eccentricity. Excellent computer skills. Hair normally dark-reddish but subject to change without notice. Tall, not thin, brown eyes, short sighted.

Ambitions: to own a large reptile - iguana preferred. To know what the Nazca Lines and the Pyramids were really for. To have a Pullman railway carriage as a summer house.

Source: British Bridge Union

Anna pictured with her younger daughter, Catherine, scrumping plums from the orchard!

Winner English National Womens Teams 1986, but rarely plays bridge now.

Secretary to the British Bridge League from 1984 - 1999 when the BBL devolved into its constituent Unions. Works for the World Bridge Federation as General Liaison and Assistant to the President, as well as organising the World, European, PABF & ABF Simultaneous Pairs, plus many others both national and local, and doing the Systems Administration for World and European Championships. Runs various events for charity and has raised over £200,000 in the past three years.

Does some administrative work for the European Bridge League and maintains the EBU Website

Has special expertise in organising Simultaneous Pairs events and with her business partner, Mark Newton of ECats Ltd, has developed an online scoring system used for all World, European and British events as well as for many other smaller ones.

IBPA International Bridge Personality of the Year 2000, the first woman to be awarded this honour.

Main hobbies: archaeology (preferably Neolithic, though the Picts are getting a look in these days!), photography, walking (hills, mountains and big beaches preferred), a recently acquired interest in bird watching, reading, writing, cooking (and eating), music and films, theatre, travel - preferably to the Orkneys, red wine, parties and anything else that seems interesting and fun to do at the time. The photos at the bottom of the page illustrate a couple of these hobbies!

Has 2 daughters - Vick, married to Nick, who teaches ballet and dance at her own dance school in Suffolk, and Catherine (pictured with Anna above) who lives in Bristol with her partner Mark and works for the Charity Shelter; 1 granddaughter - Jasmine, Vick's daughter who is currently 11 (this is written in 2006!) and the apple of her grandmother's eye; and 3 cats. Catherine's Mark (normally referred to as Marcus to distinguish him from the ECatsBridge Mark!) used to have a Harris Hawk called Meg, and we had a wonderful weekend flying her near Bristol last year.

Lives in an Old Railway Station in Suffolk, England which she and Mark bought back in 1994, just after the World Championships in Albuquerque.

Drives an Alfa Romeo 147, named Posy; a 2 litre selespeed which is great fun to drive and very fleet of foot!

Cheerful and optimistic disposition with a tendency to eccentricity. Excellent computer skills. Hair normally dark-reddish but subject to change without notice. Tall, brown eyes, short sighted. A lot slimmer than she used to be!

Ambitions: to retire to a croft on the Orkneys; to own a large reptile - iguana preferred. To have time to study photography and learn to paint. To understand tide tables properly. To own a camper van and travel all over Britain in it (it would have to have a satellite dish for broadband though !).

Unusual experiences: well not that many really, but one which was a bit different was when I was asked to be "Father of the Bride" to a dear friend, "Mac" ... Mac was in deep trouble as she had so many male friends demanding to be "father" and she knew that many would be offended if she didn't choose them. So ... as a friend in need, I volunteered, and was happily accepted! It was a great day, and Mac's Wedding will remain in my memory as a truly memorable experience, as well as an extremely enjoyable one. It was, indeed TWOTY (The Wedding of the Year!)

This is me in the oldest house in Northern Europe, on Papa Westray in the Orkneys. Dated at some 3,000 BC it is an amazing and magical place ...

... and this is me on a beach at a place rejoicing in the name of Melon Udrigle on the North West coast of Scotland - a place of great peace and beauty and one I was revisiting - the last time I was there was in 1963 !!