The 91-year-old is the only remaining founding member of the Camden Haven LUSC Bridge Club in Laurieton and still attends regular meets.

Four players sit around a table and compete in pairs during the trick-taking card game using a standard card deck.

Founding members started the club in 1985 and it now resides in the mountainview room of Laurieton United Services Club.

"I've very proud of the club and past members. Bridge is always a social, interesting and friendly game," she said.

"I regard my bridge as brain exercise because it's making you think and you have to work with your partner.

"I have to understand what my partner is telling me or not telling me constantly."

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Born in 1929 and growing up in the Camden Haven she was surrounded by a family of avid card players, Norma said.

"I grew up playing cards and that was all we ever did in the old days," she said.

"We had no television or anything like that. We'd simply go over to the neighbours, take a plate and play cards.

"I learnt to play cards in a house out on the headland at Camden Head. Six of us learnt to play in the house of a neighbour, in the home of Keith and Denise Thorkelson.

"(When I was younger) I think my parents played poker and we played euchre. We played many different card games because that was our entertainment at the time."

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