I have now created a Doodle poll for dates for the Thursday morning sessions in Wytham to cover the period from January to March next year. It is very helpful if you can continue to show your interest in coming by filling in or updating the Doodle poll as many of you have been helpfully doing. Signing up is not binding, but will help us to plan numbers and where helpful find suitable partners, partiuclarly in weeks when Annabel is not available to help.
If you cannot make the Doodle poll work, as some of you have struggle to do, please just drop me an email to say you are planning to come. The formal start time is 10am, to allow for travel times, but you can start playing earlier once there are sufficient numbers. We play a series of pre-dealt hands, each one of which can be reviewed afterwards against my assessment of the best contract and a sensible bidding auction. Refreshments are also provided.
The current series of supervised play sessions in Wytham continues this week and next; the latter will be the final session of the year. The new series will start on January 11th. From January I am also going to be offering regular seminars and videos on specific bridge topics – suitable for both beginners and improvers, and ideal if you wish to brush up on your knowledge of conventions and basic card play techniques. The first dates and topics will be circulated shortly.
As far as Charlbury is concerned, I am afraid that the next planned monthly session on December 20th will not now be going ahead, as our hosts, Rosie and Andrew Dent, are not available. We plan to run the next session on Wednesday January 31st, starting at the normal time of 2.30pm, and monthly again thereafter. A Doodle poll for the new series will be posted next week.
Jonathan
Andrew Robson Bridge in Oxford 