| Shelley 2024/25 - Round 4 Thursday 20th March |
 Fourth round of the Shelley at Haling Dene - played on Thursday 20th March
Four rounds now played, October, November, December and March. With only 4 teams Terry deals 4 sets of boards so easy to play without having to pass boards round. David kept an ear alert to silence any post-mortem discussion, not an easy task!
Raw results for round 4 see here. Handicapped results here. Carols team in the lead with cumulative score of +34, second Janet's team with -5, third Michael's team with -6 and fourth Ann's team with -23. All to play for in the last two rounds, April 17th and May 15th - make sure you mark the dates in your diary asap!
Many thanks to David for directing and scoring and Terry for all the dealing (4 sets of boards!!!) and handicap calculations. As ever the evening went very smoothly, no problems with results uploaded be 10 p.m.
Team captains: Please contact David and Terry by 15th April with your team line up to allow time for handicaps to be calculated.
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| HUGE NEWS!!! |
Following a new investigation into potential venues, your Committee has taken the momentous decision to lease a large room in the Octagon building on the Beaconside campus, and to base all our activities there in future. The start of the lease, together with the move from our current venues, is likely to be around the beginning of June. Further details will be announced in due course.
This is a useful opportunity to inform members that the Club's AGM for 2025 will take place after the morning session on Thursday 29th May, at Tixall Village Hall. Again, further details and documentation will be circulated in due course.
Michael Metcalf
Chair, SBC
10th March 2025
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| WANTED - coordinator of email communications to our members |
The Club urgently needs a volunteer to become the coordinator of email communications to our members. Could you do this?
The role simply entails sending out general messages as requested via a one-click process using a group mailing list. Messages will be of two main kinds: official messages from the Committee/individual Club Officers, and requests for partners.
The two-monthly billing of members will NOT be part of this role. At the moment the email coordinator role is one of many carried out by Carol Kane as our Club Secretary. These roles are being divided up. When Carol steps down as Secretary at the forthcoming AGM in May, she will cease to be the email coordinator. Could you take over this role from her?
For further information please contact Carol or another Club Officer.
Michael Metcalf
Chair, SBC
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| Gather your Grandchild for EBED events in Shropshire! |
- 5th-6th April the EBED Spring Youth Camp at the Pioneer Centre, Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire.
Click for details
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| Morning Lessons, 10 a.m. Thursday and Friday mornings |
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Lessons are now at Tixall village Hall, ST18 0XT at 9:45 for 10 a.m.
Lessons:
- Robin's intermediate lessons: Thursday morning lessons. On 1st Thursday of the month this will will normally be played as a duplicate session.
- Terry's Improvers lessons: Friday morning lessons. On 3rd Friday of the month this will will normally be played as a duplicate session.
Robin has produced plenty of material for the website, including one on Splinter bids, Gambling 3NT, CRO, Redoubles, Trial Bids, Jacoby and his all time most read page on McKenny signals and Discards. Summary of his lessons can be seen here with links to the individual lessons.
Robin's Thursday morning popular lessons for intermediates start at 10 a.m. (please contact Robin if you would like to attend) as do Terry's Friday morning lessons for improvers (please contact Terry if you would like to attend those). Please contact Ann if you would like to join beginner's lessons.
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Lessons are now at Tixall village Hall, ST18 0XT at 9:45 for 10 a.m.
Lessons:
- Robin's intermediate lessons: Thursday morning lessons. ..........
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| Bridge Timer |
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Timer has had a bit of a change after Flash was withdrawn but back in action now ready for long suffering Friday night players to test!
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