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Newsletter number 120 arrived in June with a host of interesting articles and photographs including reports of the March meeting/AGM at Leverstock (see previous post). David’s Part 5 of his “Wanderings of the Jigasaurus” series focused on the quite rare

Around 35 members, including some new faces, attended the March meeting where the Show & Tell theme was “Flying High”. As well as this and the annual AGM, on the agenda were tea, cakes, sales tables, and a short talk

The 16-page Spring 2016 newsletter brought us reports from the Reigate “Rumpus”, the December meeting (see previous post for more on that), early news of the next bi-annual BCD House Party weekend to be held in Bournemouth in February 2017

Terrible weather but a great turnout of 45 members and some “fiendishly difficult” puzzles characterised the Reigate meeting hosted by John Hyde. The theme was “Christmas” and a splendid display of puzzles were discussed during the Show and Tell session

The Winter 2015 edition of the BCD magazine comprised a dozen pages of interesting articles including two colour pages of pictures of some of the puzzles mentioned in them. A highlight was an article discussing two very interesting WW2 puzzles:

Lovely autumn weather for it but with a “How does the cut of a jigsaw affect the difficulty of making it?” theme, the Cheltenham meeting provided the 30 or so members who attended with a nice variety of interesting challenges.

Issue 117 published in the autumn with a great cover colour picture of a lovely 3D puzzle cut by Terry Waters for the 2013 Bournemouth House Party and enjoyably put together again at the Peterborough House Party in February. As

Nicki Barker hosted a most enjoyable June meeting in the village hall at Thornford near Sherborne. Attendees enjoyed their day, assembling puzzles, browsing the sales tables , catching up with friends and consuming cups of tea and coffee accompanied by

The summer 2015 edition of the newsletter included several articles on the Leverstock Green meeting/AGM held in March including a report on its 30 year B.C.D. anniversary show and tell session. It also contained, among others, articles from Jackie Armstrong

The 2015 AGM & meeting was hosted by long-standing member and former BCD secretary, Barbara Middlethorp and had as its theme “30 years celebration of the BCD”. Perhaps because we held our 6th Weekend House Party only 3 weeks before,