| Club Tree in Our Lady of Bloxham in their Christmas Tree Festival 6-8 December |
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With special thanks to Ann Mahoney who organised and led the small team of club members who prepared the materials and carried out the decoration. Theme of the festival "Greatest Christmas Hits" with the bridge club tree choice "Last Christmas I Gave You My Heart" - what else for a card playing group!
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| Bloxham win and are also runners-up at King's Sutton on 22 October 2024 |
Huge congratulations to the Bloxham team, (Richard Goulden, Laval Edouard, Wendy Dickins and Roger Dadd) who won the local teams competition at King's Sutton on Tuesday 22nd October 2024 with the second Bloxham team (Joan Thomas, Jürgen Fricke, Sean Callery and Scott Orchard) runners-up and the third team (Mary Adams, Gary Fisher, Joan Broady and Richard Middleton) 11th of the 15 competitors.
This is an annual teams event titled the "Challenge Cup" run by King's Sutton which Bloxham entered for the first time two years ago being runners up last year.
The full entry list was Banbury 1 team, Bloxham 3, Buckingham 3, Bicester 2, Kings Sutton 3, Summertown 1 and Quainton 2.
Many thanks to all who played. See here for full details on the Kings Sutton web site.
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| Frank Scouse Cup 22 August 2024 |
 Congratulations to Sean Callery and Scott Orchard for winning the Frank Scouse Cup with a score of 2,440 with Ann Mahoney and Richard Middleton as runners-up on 2,110. We were pleased to have Jean Scouse as our guest playing with Joan Thomas who came third with 1,570 points.
This compares with last year with a closer result when Joan Broady and Rosemary Shirt won with 1,510 followed by Richard Goulden & Laval Edouard on 1,430.
There seem (based on the score cards) to have been less games around this year, one in each board set as compared with a total of seven in 2023. Based on a double dummy analysis (similarly to 2023), board 10 offered a small slam (bid by none) and) board 19 a grand slam both to E-W – bid for 12 tricks but making 13 by only one pair.
Richard Goulden and Laval Edouard were especially unlucky this year by having almost no opportunities for a game themselves whilst five were made against them, though fortunately the slam on board 19 was not bid as such!
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