I get very tense, not to say cranky, if I’m interrupted while playing bridge. But last week I decided it was time to chill out – as I’m sure anyone else would if they too had witnessed Gitte Hecht-Johansen’s extraordinary feat of multi-tasking.
Gitte is originally from Denmark but has long been a fixture – an unusually elegant one – on London’s bridge scene, both as a player and a tournament director. Last Monday evening she was at TGR’s in Paddington, directing the weekly duplicate held there by the West London Gay Bridge Club. I was also at TGR’s for a league match. But one of our opponents was running late, so someone had the idea of asking Gitte whether she would mind standing in for a few boards. Quite unfazed, she agreed. As we sat down, she placed her laptop beside her and began tapping away.
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