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Sad news indeed. Our founder, club member No.1 and Honorary Life President, Tom Tyler, passed away peacefully, at home with all his family, shortly before New Year’s Eve. Tom and friends founded The BCD back in 1985 and he has

Issue 138 was once again packed with lovely full colour pictures of jigsaw puzzles and related epherama. Most of the first half of the magazine was taken up by accounts of the very successful second BCD virtual weekend – see

We awoke on the Saturday in the UK to a continuation of the Indian summer we had been experiencing recently – bright skies and sunshine – the perfect lighting for a day of good puzzling. Having not been on the

Our second online show and tell meeting was again enjoyed by over 30 members who ‘Zoom’ed in to join us from around the world. Alan’s puzzles were a Thelwell cartoon “Water Jump” and a Pears print “Impudent Hussies painted in

A lot of the first half of the Summer 2020 issue was given over to accounts of our first ever Virtual Puzzling Weekend, organised to replace our planned June meeting that the pandemic prevented from taking place.  You can read

Our first ever virtual BCD Show & Tell was a great success. There were over 30 members on the call including participants from England, Scotland, Wales, USA, Netherlands, Germany and Sweden – a truly international assembly! About a dozen of

Back in February, just before the lockdown, about 60 of our members gathered at a hotel in Peterborough to take part in a full weekend of puzzling activity, and a very enjoyable time was had by all! Most of the

The 24 page 35th anniversary issue of Jigsaw Pieces was packed full of news and reports from our very successful February house party – see next post for more on that. Other articles in the issue included: a couple from

The Spring issue of Jigsaw Pieces featured on its front page the top-selling Maids of Kent “Alice – The Mock Turtle’s Story” puzzle from the auction held at the Lingfield meeting in November. More about the meeting and the auction