Your committee met in early March to discuss our bridge over the next few months. As you know, we have one more RealBridge session on a Monday evening (27th March), and then the following three months will be face-to-face at Maison Francaise. Special thanks go to Cliff who has directed many of our online sessions at no cost to the club.
To encourage you to come along and join us face-to-face, we are starting the three months with drinks and nibbles before bridge on Monday 3rd April. The bridge session will be free for members as a reward for your loyalty, but we still ask you to register online as usual to give us an idea of numbers. Non-members are welcome, but we ask that they register online and pay for a non-member ticket.
We need those of you who can do so to volunteer one evening when you are prepared to host. Please let Erika Syba (erika.sybaatbtinternet.com) know what dates you can manage.
The start of full-time face-to-face means that we have decided to stop issuing weekly bridge bulletins. These are simply too difficult to write when one can't see all the bidding and play, as is possible for online sessions. I personally have greatly enjoyed these bulletins, and I hope you have too. Special thanks to Sandra for organising them, and to the team of bulletin writers: Sandra & Krys, Steven, Cliff, Roger and James.
A few of you do not feel able to return to F2F, and some of you like a mixture of F2F and online. Although we won't be offering an online option ourselves over the summer, we have been in contact with Banbury Bridge Club, which meets online on a Thursday evening, and they are very happy to welcome additional players. We encourage you to consider playing there: here is a link to their website
https://www.bridgewebs.com/banbury/
You simply click on the link on the website to play, and they collect table money at a later date.
Here is another date for your diary: on Monday 5th June we will be holding our AGM at Maison Francaise at 7 pm, followed by the Midsummer Pairs Competition for the Bygott Trophy. Papers for the AGM will follow in due course.
Erica 17.3.23
|