According to Surrey County Council, Hare Lane will be closed for resurfacing from the junction with Dalmore Avenue to Oaken Lane from Thursday 15 May for seven nights, with working hours from 8pm to 6am.

So — if you normally use Hare Lane or Oaken Lane to leave the Day Centre on Monday evenings — next Monday you should head for Church Road, then Coverts Road, then Foley Road, and turn left on to Hare Lane, which should enable you to head towards Esher, Thames Ditton etc.

We hope to see you next Monday.

Each pair’s best four positions are used to calculate their final position. These four scores are added together. The overall winners of the Club Championship are the qualifying pair with the lowest total score over the course of the seven qualifying sessions.

Remember: you have to play in the same pair for at least four of the seven sessions in order to be in the running.

THE PROVISIONAL FINAL TABLE: Pairs who have played at least four rounds:

Please check these totals if you are concerned about them. (Although the scoring on each session is controlled by the computer, the transfer of the scores to this table is manual and therefore prone to human error.)

My apologies to Robin and Bob for allowing an audacious 3NT to make on our very last hand of the evening—hand 24 on 10th February—thereby enabling Meena and Fiona to snatch victory at the final moment.

KEY