NextBackDiscovering whist drives enabled my mother to expand her social circle. With a "Craven A" cigarette in her mouth and almost blinded by smoke she became quite competitive gradually gaining self confidence and shedding the inhibitions and memories of her upbringing. Quite what Nanan her mother back in sleepy Blaenau Ffestiniog would have thought of the combined sins of smoking and card playing does not bear thinking about.
