Welcome to Pooh Corner!

Hels This is the home page of Paul & Helen Gipson. This may be a good site to visit if you like Scrabble®, Bridge, Penguins or Winnie the Pooh.

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Helen's List of Extremely Interesting Places

Country Strife (Helen's blog)
Photos from our trip to India, including some from the World Scrabble Championships in Mumbai
Paul's coverage of the 8th World Scrabble Championships. Helen finishes a disappointing 29th but luckily retained her top woman position.
All our photo albums including:
Internet Scrabble Club - see and play the best players in the world.
Sonic's blog includes reports on 2005 King's Cup in Bangkok where Hels finished 3rd with a 19-8 record.
7th World Scrabble Championships (2003) - Paul's Report
5th World Scrabble Championships (1999) - Paul's Report
Our Holiday File - 1987-2005
Gardens to visit in Australia
Our Cats, Poppy & Flo
Helen's List of Surf Sites, including Scrabble info

Paul's List of Relatively Interesting Places

The Beer Card (Paul's bridge blog)
Paul's home page, mostly about bridge!
Blanerne House, Scottish Borders - salmon fishing
BBO BIL UK 2005 meeting photo album
Paul's guide to playing bridge on the Internet
The longer list of Interesting Places to Visit, including sites on Cricket, Money Matters, Travel, Books, Gardening, Wallace & Gromit, Penguins and other miscellaneous items.
Bridge Plus! website

Helen is a keen scrabble player and recognised as the top woman player in the world. She is currently ranked 9th in the UK and was the British Matchplay Scrabble Champion in 1998. Hels represented England in the 1999 World Scrabble Championships in Melbourne, Australia, the 2003 World Scrabble Championships in KL, Malaysia and the 2005 World Championships in London.

The official website of the Association of British Scrabble Players (ABSP) is the primary site of interest to tournament Scrabble players in the UK. It maintains the current tournament ratings as well as providing information about clubs and tournaments. Its links page provides a variety of information.

Scrabble info is maintained by Steven Alexander, but if you are interested in competitive Scrabble in the UK give Helen a call or contact the ABSP for more information. When we lived in Berkshire we used to run one tournament a year, the East Berkshire Scrabble Weekend, so we can provide some hints in this area too.

There are plenty of Scrabble clubs in the UK and they all welcome new members with open arms. For details of your nearest club, contact Philip Nelkon at Mattel who will be happy to help.

The latest available UK ABSP ratings are on the ABSP site.

Personal Interest in Surfing

Scrabble

Association of British Scrabble Players

Official Scrabble website

Internet Scrabble Club - play all the top players online

Onwords Magazine for Scrabble enthusiasts published by Allan Simmons

Scottish Scrabble Association

National Scrabble Association (USA)

Scrabble info - unmaintained by Steven Alexander

John Chew's Home Page

Pooh and Tigger

Disney.com's Book of Pooh
Words to The Tigger Song (related Pooh and friends site accessible from here!)
Another Tiggr page with some bouncing Tiggrs and lots of links.
All the Pooh and Friends pictures you can eat!
A website about Winnie the Pooh and his friends, with lots of fun stuff like pictures, postcards, games , free email and more.
Pooh's Place

Other

Our Holiday File - a list of places we've visited in the world

Royal Horticultural Society - for the gardeners amongst us.

The National Gardens Scheme is a registered charity which opens mainly privately owned gardens in England and Wales to the public. We have visited some of them.

Scotland's Gardens Scheme is a registered charity which opens mainly privately owned Scottish gardens to the public.