Yesterday we left Darlington after a lovely weekend. Thanks must go to Val and Julian for masterminding it all, and to Jim and Sarah for sharing it with us.
Our next stop is Harrogate for a midweek bridge congress. We are staying in an Airbnb so we needed to buy a few provisions on the way.
We popped into Sainsbury’s just outside Northallerton and then went into the town itself where there are some lovely little shops and in particular a very good butchers selling top class pork pies.
We stocked up for the Airbnb.
There are 7 of us staying here, all bridge players. The competition proper starts tomorrow but there is a short event tonight. Val and I are playing in that while Denis and Julian are off for beer and curry.
We had mixed fortunes and once we got back to the Airbnb we all discussed what we’d done on each hand …. Including post mortems on the unsuccessful ones. These days we get full copies of all the hands we played to help the discussions.
The nice thing about being in the Airbnb rather than in a hotel is that we can do this over some shared food and a bottle (ok, two bottles) of wine.
The main event started today …. We had mixed fortunes, with Denis and Kathy doing best and Val and I doing worst. Once more back at base we had a Chinese take away and another post mortem …
Last session tomorrow, and also the Champions League draw …. and then home ….
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