I had a terrible feeling that my new partner didn't care for me and was somewhat ashamed that I had played badly on Monday, so it was a pleasant surprise to have her visit today saying how ashamed she was about how she had played!
After a cup of tea and coffee respectively and getting all that out of the way we started to go through the exercises in a bridge book I have. It was good to see that we were almost always in agreement, and almost always got the correct answer. We talked through one or two things that we were rather unsure of and look forward to next Monday's game.
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7 comments:
Guide to Better Acol Bridge (Master Bridge S.) - this is the book that I used when learning to play as it has exercises and lessons in it.. I got mine from Amazon. But I also found that in the daily papers there is sometimes a bridge problem that also helps explain what should the bidding be..
Takes time to get to know someone's way of playing.. wish I was still playing but few people play here now.
Well, Sage, how on earth did you know that???????
Do you have x-ray vision or something, or do you have a spy in my bridge club?
We have started going through the exercises together, and we both tend to come up with the same answer (but not always the right one!
I have just ordered the latest edition from Amazon so that my partner and I can do the problems separately - it was quite difficult two people sharing the one item or problem.
So now I am hunting to see where I have put that lined paper!................
It's a while since I've commented, but I always enjoy reading your blog - quiet tales from a well-run life (or so it seems).
Your bridge stories remind me of a game that my husband and I have started playing recently and really enjoy. It's called Word Taking and Word Making and our set dates from perhaps the 1920s or 30s. Older readers may have come across it. It's very simple - there are lots of little cardboard letters. You take turns at taking one, and then try to make a word either by adding a letter or letters to one of your opponent's words (which then becomes yours) or by using letters from the poolto form a new word. It's terribly simple, always produces a laugh or two, and it doesn't seem to matter whether you win or lose - it's still fun. I regard it as brain exercise - a bit like Sudoku but with a social element to it.
I wondered whether you'd played it. I suspect it's the kind of thing you'd enjoy - although you probably feel that with bridge, Scrabble and jigsaws you don't need any more games.
to elderly lady in training - thank you so much for such a lovely comment.
As for that game, I have never heard of it; it sounds vaguely like Scrabble and I wonder if it was a precursor.
Hmmmmm! Thank you, elderlyladyintraining. I think just maybe, Elaine is playing enough games for now! lol. What, with 'the fastest milkman in the west' and all that!
You mean - Ernie? Hmmm
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