Update - on Friday 12 Apr 2019 we had a new record 34.5 tables in play - see the photo. It would have been 35 tables but we had to send one of our five unpartnered players home when no fill-in player could be found.
Without any fanfare or expectation, the club broke its record number of tables in play for a standard session on Friday 1 February 2019 with 34 tables. This broke the previous record of 33.5 on a Wednesday in March 2018 and 33 on a Friday in February 2018.
It is great to see the room full - and how the revised afternoon tea arrangements coped well with the numbers.
There is still room for more. We have 37 permanent tables set up equipped with chairs - and, in an extreme case, a couple of folding card tables (borrowing chairs from the Nelson Heather Centre).