King Penguins Badminton Club

During the weekend of May 3rd - 5th we held one of of the biggest event in our calendar at the Redwood Club & Country Hotel near to Bristol. It was another great success with guests from Clifton (York), Vale Farm and Bridge Park (Hammersmith League) Badminton Clubs.

The winners of the Ron Seoman 2008 Shield were Melanie Knowles and Jessen Chen. The runners up to this event were Polly Hipkins and Ricky Evans.

The winners of the Oh No! McIntosh 2008 Sheild were Gill & Richard McIntosh with the runners-up of Hannah Saunders and Mannie Panesar.

We would like to thank everyone for making this event such a wonderful and fun weekend. We look forward to welcoming everyone for 2009.

This has not been a very successful year for us with 3 of our teams getting relegated - Surrey Men 1 (from Div 2), Surrey Men 2 (from Div 3) and Sutton Mix 1. I am sure we will bounce back for next year.

On another note, many congratulations to The Hammersmith Ladies 4s team for winning promotion to Div 1 for next year - Katy (captain), Polly, Ying, Claire, Rachel, Foong and Millie.

Well done to all the captains for what has been a difficult year for us and I hope you will continue to support the club and teams by staying on in your role. My thanks to all the players who have given their time for their teams.

The All England baddie trip was another briliant get together badminton weekend and we were pleasantly surprised to meet the Malaysian and Danish squads who were also staying at Novotel.

There were 35 of us this year, plus 3 babies - Nicolas, James and Abbie. For those of you who watched the Sky Sports Live Badminton, you would probably have heard Abbie cheering (moaning?) while Lin Dan played his final and also caught a clear glimpse of her sitting on David’s laps on TV on Friday (Quarter Final Japanes mens double match). The camera man also cleverly cropped Looi from shoulder upwards to miss his roast duck lunch box which he was digging into at the time. Needless to say, the ‘yellow corner’ was clearly visible in the audience on TV on the final day.

We shall mark the return of yellow t-shirt force to the NIA next year between 6-8 March 2009. Please ask Millie to include you in the tour if you are interested.

Congratulations to Pek Yong and Vincent Liaw who recently got engaged. All our best wishes to the happy couple.

Message from Vinnie

Hi all

I have some really really great news. Pek yong and me are engaged !!!!! we have spent many a happy time together and will be happy to spend the rest of our lives together. No exact date for wedding but we shall keep you all posted. some pics for all

Many thanks

Vincent  

Hi everyone,

as some of you know already Hrund gave birth to a little premature boy on the 2nd of January. Ulfur Thorhallsson was born at 32 weeks and now almost three weeks later he is at home with Hrund and myself.

The full story can be found here (in english below the icelandic gibberish) Also, here are links to pictures and videos.

I have been informed by Coombe Girls School that they will be closed from Wednesday 19th December 2007 to Sunday 6th January 2008.

Our last session for 2007 is Tuesday 18th December and our first session of 2008 is Tuesday 8th January.

We, the committee would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

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Dear members, 

We’re pleased to be able to congratulate Millie & David Law on their little baby girl, named Abbie. She was born on the 13th of November, weighing 6lb 5oz.

Dear members

We have just been informed by the school that because of staff holidays the school and the sports hall will be closed from Mon 13th August to Friday 31st August.

Therefore there will be No Club Night on the Tuesdays 14th, 21st and 28th August at our usual venue of Coombe Girls School.

Replacement club night(s) - Venue

Thursday 14th August
Club night will be held at the Raynes Park High Leisure Centre, Raynes Park High School, Bushey Road, London SW20 0JL at the usual time of 7:30 - 9:30pm. Please be advised there is NO ENTRY into the school directly from the A3.

Location:   Raynes Park Leisure Centre

Turn left once past the school gates and follow the road to the end .. the sports hall should be by the playing fields at the end.

I am currently looking for other venues to be used during the nights of 21st and 28th August.

Thank you.

Looi