Wednesday, 4 February 2026

Bridge club just the trick for Nina

Having to now rely on a wheelchair hasn't slowed down Nina Fraser at the card table. Games with the Warragul Bridge Club - and she doesn't mind a game of poker, either - has given the now resident of Abbey Gardens Aged Care at Warragul something to...

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Bridge club just the trick for Nina
Nina Fraser enjoying her weekly game with the Warragul bridge club with, from left, Clive Ayerst, son Simon Fraser and Robert Foster.

Having to now rely on a wheelchair hasn't slowed down Nina Fraser at the card table.
Games with the Warragul Bridge Club - and she doesn't mind a game of poker, either - has given the now resident of Abbey Gardens Aged Care at Warragul something to really look forward to each week.
Mrs Fraser began playing with the club at Warragul Community House last November, being dropped off and picked up three hours later by one of her sons, Simon.
In recent months Simon, a doctor, has juggled his work schedules to join as his mother's partner for the games and in three successive weeks they won the club competition.
They are a formidable partnership, fellow club member Ken Hutchison said.
Mrs Fraser says bridge is her hobby.
"It keeps me going and keeps my mind going," she said.
It has also helped fill a gap after Donald, her husband of 63 years, died 18 months ago.
But bridge is not a recent discovery for Mrs Fraser. She has been playing for 47 years and Simon remembers as a teenager he and his brother were introduced to the game around a card table with their parents.
Mrs Fraser, who is of German descent, and Donald, who was English, met and married in West Africa and she is extremely proud of her two sons and a daughter - a doctor, a dentist and a scientist.

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