Bridge

THE team of Helena Dawson, Jamie Ebery, Normand MacLaurin and Ken Berry won the Newcastle Bridge Club's Teams Championship. They defeated Chris Dibley, Mike Seldon, Julie Gleeson, Robyn Fletcher and Paul McGrath by 77 to 49 imps in the final. Ken Wilks, Eileen Pickles, Ian Walker and Bernie Adcock defeated Mike Parfait, Pravin Nahar, Pam Robinson and Fay Larking in the play-off for third.

Lotus Bar And Bistro's 4th Birthday Potts Point

hit The Merivale Group's uber-hip Lotus Bar and Bistro drew in a swish crowd to celebrate its fourth birthday with the Hemmes family. The glam set knocked back Alexx Swainston's martinis and were super impressed by the charming waiters in suits (not aprons) handing out heavenly Moroccan quail pastries and duck parfait.

Masterchef - Philippa Sibley-cooke, Ondine

Sure, the co-head chef at flash city restaurant Ondine can turn out intricate, classically based desserts with the best of them. A mousse of Valrhona's Pur Caraibe and a cognac parfait glace here, a vacherin of poached rhubarb with yoghurt sorbet there. But for the restaurant's lunchtime menu, Phili

Bidding The Big Hands

MIKE Parfait, Julie Gleeson, Chris Dibley, Mike Seldon, Louis Woo and Paul McGrath have won the 2001 Newcastle Bridge Club Teams Championship.

Deception's Special Delight

THE winners of the Country Teams Regional final (Hunter Region) were the Newcastle team of Mike Parfait, Louis Woo, Julie Gorton and Chris Dibley.

Mental Fatigue Biggest Winner

TWO Newcastle teams represented the Hunter in the recent finals of the GNOT in Sydney. They were the Robinson team (Pam Robinson, Hazel Bowen, Jenny Atkinson and Eileen Pickles) and the Dibley team (Chris Dibley, Mike Parfait, Roy Hardy, Mike Seldon and Paul McGrath). The eventual winners wer

High-level Decisions

FOLLOWING their eighth place in the South West Pacific Teams in Canberra, members of the Parfait team were `over the moon' and qualified for the finals of the National Open Teams. They met the Rothfield team in the `round of 16'. Michael Parfait had to go home before the finals so that left Chri

Good Result For Locals

A GREAT result for the Hunter Region ? the team of Michael Parfait, Chris Dibley, Mike Seldon, Louis Woo and Paul McGrath finished in 8th position in the Rydges field of the South West Pacific teams in Canberra to qualify for `the round of sixteen'. They put up a good battle in the early stages o

Congress In The Rain

THE Charlestown Bridge Congress held last Sunday attracted a good field of 28 teams. It was a great day for bridge given the wild and woolly weather conditions outside. The Newcastle team of Mike Parfait, Roy Hardy, Louis Woo and Paul McGrath had a virtually unassailable lead after four matc

Parfait Turns Tables

THE Parfait team, one of many local teams playing in the National Championships in Canberra this year, had a dismal record after nine matches of the South West Pacific Teams. At this point they had had three wins and six losses. Match number 10 was the turning point for them but you wouldn't hav

Imperfect Parfait

It's clear that Sydney cinemas have something to offer everyone when a film like Claude Berri's Lucie Aubrac is showing at the same time as Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot. Berri's film is a WW2 romance which shows the charming sexy French defying the inhuman Germans. Das Boot brings us the hapless