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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,

The Spring edition of the BCD quarterly newsletter was very efficiently produced to go out just in advance of our 2015 weekend House Party near Peterborough. As well as the standard meeting reports, forthcoming programme, Sales & Wants etc., there

The hall of St. Augustine’s Church in Chelmsford was the venue for our final meeting of 2014 and proved itself a perfect setting for hostess Marie to have chosen for us all. The attendance was a little down on our

The arrival of Autumn 2014 was heralded for BCD members by the welcome thud of the fourth newsletter of the year dropping on to their doormats. A quick flick through this colourful 16-pager, fronted up with a report of September’s

Around 40 members journeyed to the Worcester town of Malvern for our third meeting of the year, including one couple from Spain. How’s that for dedication to the cause? The theme of the meting was “1914-Life and Times”, with an