| Roadworks at the Redhill Roundabout (A34/Beaconside/M6 Link Road) |
You are strongly advised to avoid this roundabout, if at all possible, as road works are causing serious delays. For bridge club members this is particularly relevant for those going to Holmcroft YCC.
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| Shelley 2024/25 - Round 5 Thursday 17th April |
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Sixth, and final 2024-25 season, round played on Thursday 15th May
Sixth round raw results see here (hand files corrected 7pm 16th May), handicapped results here. The overall winning result so conclusive David was able to announce and take photo of the winners on the night, Janet's team. Photo of those that played on the final night shown, one key player missing on the 15th May so an edit to include Pam will be necessary! Congratulations to Janet and her team.
Summer holidays have arrived meaning a large number of subs took part, at least one sub in every team, one team even had 3 subs two of whom had played in the team before but the third had never taken part in the Shelley before!
Everything ran very smoothly on the night as usual under David's direction. Minor worry as the laptop not immediately spotted, it was actually sitting vertically on office chair packed and ready to take to room 11! Many thanks to David for directing (and calculating the handicaps this time) and Terry for dealing 4 sets of boards to make such an easy movement.
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| Bank Holiday Venues when Haling Dene is closed |
Arrangements over forthcoming Bank Holiday periods
Members may be aware that the Haling Dene Centre is closed on Bank Holidays, and also on Tuesdays following the four main Bank Holiday Mondays. Alternative arrangements for our sessions at Haling Dene have therefore been made, as shown below.
| Monday 26th May |
This session will be held at Tixall, arrive by 1.00 for a 1.15 start |
| Tuesday 27th May |
Venue to be confirmed as Tixall - arrive by 6.45 for a 7.00 start. |
Michael Metcalf, Chair
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| Morning Lessons, 10 a.m. Thursday and Friday mornings |
Lessons are now at Tixall village Hall, ST18 0XT at 9:45 for 10 a.m.
There are some alterations to the usual sessions during April/May period, for the dates for this period see the table below:
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| May 22nd |
Lesson 9:45 for 10:00 |
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May 23rd |
No Lesson |
| May 29th |
Duplicate session 9:45 for 10:00 followed by Food & AGM. |
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May 30th |
No Lesson |
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.
There are some alterations to the usual sessions during April/May period, for the dates for this period see the table below:
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| May 22nd |
Lesson 9:45 for 10:00 |
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May 23rd |
No Lesson |
| May 29th |
Duplicate session 9:45 for 10:00 followed by Food & AGM. |
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May 30th |
No Lesson |
Lessons:
- Robin's intermediate lessons: Thursday morning lessons. ..........
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| Many, Many congratulations Robin and Dave |
Robin and Dave, playing on RealBridge, came top in the Midlands regional area heat of the EBU National Pairs competition played over 48 boards on 23rd March 2025. This followed their success in the Midlands regional qualifier session on 11th March at Haling Dene. The National final was played over the weekend with April 12th/13th where they played 4 sessions each of 24 boards against other top ranking players from Eastern, Midlands, Northern, South East and South West regions in which they came 15th overall see here.
Thank you David for the picture
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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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