Two home matches tonight, both involving a little juggling.

WN6–WN7 is in the fixture list the other way round, but way back at the start of the season the two teams played their first fixture with the wrong colours, thus making that match WN7–WN6. So this match put things right. WN6 looked a lot stronger on paper, and so it proved: 3–1. But nine-year-old Jonathan Wild registered his maiden league win for WN7, which gives him bragging rights in the Wild household, as brother Tom missed a clear win against Ross Mackay and went on to lose.

The main event was WN3–Ashfield 3. A discussion about who was going to play on Board 3 and thus be rendered ineligible for WN4 was short-circuited by throwing Tracey Clegg into the vacant slot, with the captain stepping down. It proved a smart move, as although Tracey lost, everybody else won, simultaneously keeping WN3 on top of Division 3 and preserving WN4's playing resources – all the balls still in the air, as it were.