The last couple of weeks have seen a few “incidents” where directors have been called into action.

We position ourselves as a FRIENDLY CLUB and tongue in cheek say that our members are allowed one director call a year! Obviously we have acquired many new players on RealBridge but our ethos is unchanged. Our participants include several qualified directors and high flyers in EBU Laws and Ethics but they take no active role in the club’s operation.

Our working directors are not all fully trained and neither do we wish them to be,

If you look at the left hand side menu under Information - Appeals and gdpr, you will see in the fourth paragraph that we value camaraderie and pragmatism over strict adherence to the letter of the law. We wish to protect weaker players rather than be the most rules compliant club in England.

Having said that, many of our players compete in high level events with no problem. If directors make a decision we expect it to be accepted after due process internally even if it is wrong.

You may ask what the EBU think about this? No-one has asked them in 10 years to the best of our knowledge. Neither do we intend to.

We ask you instead to lighten up a bit if you are aggrieved and try to give our unpaid loyal helpers an easy life!

Many thanks 

Peter Malpass

Ps  If you feel this is on the wrong track there is a vacancy below……

Bedfordshire Bridge League Final

Many congratulations go to our league team; Peter Malpass, Andrew Mason, Bob Brown Ian Wilson, for winning the final against Tudor Rose. 

Well Done! 

♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ 

Icelandic and Faroe players.

You are most welcome to play in our club!

Could I ask just 3 things:

1 You log on using the name you have registered at the EBU along with your EBU number. 

   This will enable us to credit master points. If you do not do this we will assume you are playing 

    as a guest. If you want us to register you with the EBU please send me an email.   

2. You should put up a brief summary of your system in the chat bar on each round.

3.  If you wish to have a discussion with your partner in your own language between rounds

     please use the mute button. We would prefer it though if you would try to talk to your hosts.

Many thanks

Peter Malpass - ex chairman designate

peterfmalpass@yahoo.co.uk

I think the time is right for me to pass responsibility for taking the Club forward to more enthusiastic hands and brains!

We have in recent years moved F2F premises twice and have now settled as an online entity with widespread support and a healthy bank balance of £7.6K. (audited a/c’s soon).

We have co-operated in BOA with our sister clubs - MK and Regis and are now paying admin fees to BOA to help run the weekly events and collect fees. Thus, the management of the Club is not onerous but does need a degree of diplomacy to help rebuild broken partnerships , keep the website going and very occasionally keep the peace when something goes wrong!

The Club would function quite happily without a Chairman but it would be good to have someone with a fresh outlook  volunteer to take us forward. 

Maybe these volunteers could form an orderly queue at the door of our excellent secretary (pennybligh@gmail.com)

Thank you for your support in these past years. I look forward to continuing to see you all at LBBC.

Best regards

Peter Malpass 

We operate with MK and Regis clubs so that we can offer bridge on Monday to Friday evenings by sharing our resources and offering free access to each club's membership and guests. The essence of this is that the bridge will be friendly and inclusive of all levels of ability. An umbrella website B O A (bridge online alliance) where all events can be seen but each club will retain it's own identity.

We  have PLAYING directors so we would remind all of you that the Club's ethos is that friendly bridge is the norm at LBBC so director calls are rarely appropriate except if an issue cannot be amicably resolved by discussion at the table. Please see Information and click Appeals and GDPR. 

Click here to register  (with BOA - required for billing)

If you would like us to try and find a partner for you

please call our treasurer Judi on

01296 681583, 07887775006 

or email judimalpass@gmail.com