A big thank you to everyone for the great turnouts at our recent Thursday practice sessions and for making them so enjoyable. We have been full or close to capacity on a few recent occasions, so some reminders about how the booking system works and suggestions on how to make best use of it and the practice sessions themselves.
For reference the link to the booking spreadsheet is below and Jenny kindly sends out a reminder with this link by email every week.
- The main purpose of the booking system is to make sure everyone gets plenty of table time, as we appreciate that some travel quite some distance to attend. This is why we place a limit on numbers.
- We allow people to book up to 5 weeks in advance, so book early because it can fill up quickly.
- If your plans change and you are unable to make it, please do cancel your booking by deleting your name as soon as you know you can't attend. This frees up a space and allow others to fill that slot. We do monitor the bookings as often we have people waiting to take up any slots which are freed up.
- The more we can fill up the practice sessions, the lower we can keep the practice session fees. We set the fees as low as we can, but rely on a good attendance to keep them that way.
- If you can't attend and leave your booking in place, it runs the risk of you being incorrectly charged practice fees as we don't keep a register of attendance.
- During busy practice sessions, please do rotate to ensure everyone gets lots of table time. With the limit on numbers, everyone should be able to spend at least two-thirds of the time practising.
- Help with setting up and packing up is always appreciated and helps us to get off to a prompt start and increases playing time.
Thanks for all your help with the above. We welcome any suggestions on how we can improve the sessions.
Keep practising as it is not long until the season starts!