When you hold a bridge game at home, the main event is the bridge game.
You can start with a drink, with or without nuts or snacks.
Break half way through the evening (or lunch time or tea time) for a cold snack of bridge rolls topped with chopped boiled egg, or tuna or smoked salmon or sardines or herring. Add a salad. Plus bread and butter or rolls, or hummous and chopped carrots, or dips and yogurt.
Afterwards for dessert, or at the end of the evening, serve coffee or tea or lemon tea or herbal tea.
Add a home made or bought in cheese cake or chocolate cake. For dieters and weight watchers, provide a plain cake or sponge cake or other cake and grapes.
If the host of hostess are dummy (not playing - cards on the table) they can go out to the kitchen and put on the hot water in the keettle for tea or coffee, or put the plates on a trolley ready to wheel in as the game finishes.
The host or hostess's partner places a table cloth over the bridge table, or the three bridge players then move to a dining table or kitchen table to enjoy the tea break and chat.
In the UK in 2020 several retired couples cannot leave home becuase one partner is in a wheelchair or poorly or recovering from an operation or self-isolating.
In this case, both couples stay home and play bridge with each other online.
Online Games Schedule
At break time, they stop playing, eat the same food in their respective homes, sometimes from a delivery service, such as a supermarket, or pizza. They chat online.
The online website is free if you wish to play by yourself or in a foursome. There is a charge for major contests.
Afterwards the resume playing bridge.
Useful Websites
Playing bridge online
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Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photogrpaher, author and speaker.
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