Every Tuesday, Except These

The club's whole claim is that it happens every Tuesday. It mostly does. Here are the weeks it did not, which turn out to be a short and fairly predictable list.

The club says it meets every Tuesday. That is true enough to print, and this page is the asterisk.

How you can tell a break from a gap in the record

The meetings are numbered. If #814 is 25 January and #815 is 8 February, then nothing happened in between and the club took the week off. If the numbers jump, the meetings happened and the paperwork did not survive.

Only the first kind counts here, and only where both dates are recorded rather than inferred. That leaves eighteen occasions since 2014.

The weeks off

Apr 2016
One week
#485#486 · 26 Apr 2016 → 12 May 2016
Apr 2017
A few days
#567#568 · 25 Apr 2017 → 4 May 2017

Nine days rather than seven. The meeting moved, it did not stop.

Sep 2017
One week
#591#592 · 25 Sep 2017 → 10 Oct 2017
National Day
Apr 2021
Seven weeks
#773#774 · 6 Apr 2021 → 1 Jun 2021
Apr 2021
Three weeks
#776#777 · 27 Apr 2021 → 25 May 2021
Dec 2021
One week
#807#808 · 7 Dec 2021 → 19 Dec 2021
Jan 2022
One week
#814#815 · 25 Jan 2022 → 8 Feb 2022
Chinese New Year
Sep 2022
One week
#847#848 · 27 Sep 2022 → 11 Oct 2022
National Day
Aug 2023
One week
#889#890 · 1 Aug 2023 → 15 Aug 2023
Sep 2023
One week
#896#897 · 26 Sep 2023 → 10 Oct 2023
National Day
Jan 2024
Two weeks
#913#914 · 30 Jan 2024 → 20 Feb 2024
Chinese New Year
Jul 2024
A few days
#935#936 · 16 Jul 2024 → 25 Jul 2024

Nine days, and the meeting itself was held on a Thursday, jointly with another club.

Sep 2024
One week
#943#944 · 10 Sep 2024 → 24 Sep 2024
Sep 2024
One week
#944#945 · 24 Sep 2024 → 8 Oct 2024
National Day
Jan 2025
Three weeks
#960#961 · 21 Jan 2025 → 18 Feb 2025
Chinese New Year
Jun 2025
Four weeks
#977#978 · 3 Jun 2025 → 8 Jul 2025
Feb 2026
Two weeks
#1011#1012 · 3 Feb 2026 → 24 Feb 2026
Chinese New Year
Feb 2026
One week
#1012#1013 · 24 Feb 2026 → 10 Mar 2026

What the club said at the time

Only twice does a surviving post actually announce a break. Both are Chinese New Year, seven years apart, and the difference in tone is the whole point:

鉴于春节放假,Shenzhen Toastmasters Club 2 月 17 号和 24 号的的例会暂停举行, 春节后第一次会议将在 3 月 3 号如期举行。

That is February 2015. Two weeks off, one typo, no adjectives.

春节期间,希望大家珍惜陪伴家人的时光,也让自己好好休整,蓄力迎接来年的挑战, 我们休会一周,2022.2.8 会议不见不散~

That is January 2022. Same instruction, but now with a reason: spend the time with your family, rest properly, come back with something in the tank.

The long ones

Three of the breaks are longer than a holiday and nothing in the archive explains them: seven weeks in spring 2021, three more a few weeks later, and four weeks in June 2025. The club was still numbering its meetings across each of them, so it fully intended to come back, and it did.

Before it was weekly

Between 2008 and 2013 there are ten more gaps of a fortnight, and none of them is a break. The club met twice a month then. The first website says so, and the meeting numbers agree: a fortnight was the schedule. Somewhere around 2013 it became every week and stayed that way.

Which makes the real headline of this page a different one. In the twelve years since, out of roughly six hundred Tuesdays, the club has taken about eighteen of them off.