Hi all.
The COVID-19 came sharply into my tiny corner of the world this week when our bridge session was impacted dramatically because our host’s grandson was quarantined after his football teammate had tested positive. She had not seen the boy, but she had been in close contact with her daughter. I was  most unclear about whether I should stay well away or assume that the contact was too distant from me to impact my world.

Without knowing any details, and reading such conflicting informati...

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"I am happy so it is of no consequence what others think." Dean Kootz wrote of a character in his novel Lightning 

Audio books offer escapism as I tread the daily mill - walking the dog, journeying to my next bridge event, or putting myself through my fitness paces. My latest Audible selection Lightning has yet to reveal itself as a delight or bore, but this quote did launch a needle point assault to my consciousness. That’s me I thought – actually I am happy. I absolutely love my life, fu...

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Today my world was twice spun upside down in the space of minutes – Number 1: I went to the doctor to get jabs for joining a household with a new born back with my family Down Under. The nurse would not administer the requested jabs until she had determined I was sufficiently vaccinated for travel to Australia – oh my have I been in this country so long I need protection just to go home?! Number 2: As I got into the car post-jabbed, I noticed the temperature gauge on my dash reading 12.5C...
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I have been asked by a Club Manager to check the scoring of a recent club session. A declarer had bid to make 11 tricks and succeeded. Recording the result in her Bridgemate, she was assigned +550 as a doubled game. Her counterpart in another section had scored +570 for successfully bidding for only 9 tricks and making 10. Natural instinct suggested to our first declarer and the Club Manager that bidding higher would score more and both were confused by what appeared to be a scoring inconsist...
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