VE Day 80 Celebrations - 8 May

Oh what a night! 

The hall was packed and the atmosphere was buzzing with everyone happy to see friends and ready to celebrate. Russell welcomed everyone to this special night.
The bingo games started and the noise subsided except when reacting, for example with a ‘knock at the door’ for No 4 or singing along as certain numbers were called. 50 always had a good rendition of ‘Hawai 5 0’ but 45 was sometimes poorly supported with ‘Halfway There’ unless prompted  by Russell.

During the interval many individual birthdays were celebrated and a specially decorated cake to commemorate the occasion was paraded then shared out. Then Chairman of the  Association Committee, Sean Porter,  recited a poem to thank Russell Goodyear for his 10 years of dedicated Bingo Calling and presented him with a Silver Cup and a special t-shirt with bingo calls listed (in the photo gallery Russell can be seen celebrating the successful night wearing the t-shirt and drinking his favoured Guinness from the cup after everyone had gone home.) Flowers were presented by the Secretary, Juliette Gaule, to the hard-working floor team of Katy & Rosie Goodyear and Mhairi Watts who have backed Russell so well over the years.

The  Bingo continued in the second half with the celebrating getting louder, the singing getting sometimes better but also often worse than in the first half. The full house prizes were growing in value until the 12th prize of the night of £250 was finally won. 

It was all over and time to go home, with everyone looking forward to the next bingo session on 4 April.