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The quarterly meeting at Rushmere St. Andrew was rather special. Our host was Trish Tyler, one of our founder members, and her generous welcome included a ploughman’s lunch followed by blackberry and apple crumble. Show and Tell puzzles on the

New members are always welcome, but there’s something very special about enrolling member no. Find out more in the next magazine!!  

The weekend started, as always, on flickr, with members optimistically posting photos of the puzzles they intended to complete over the weekend. Wout had chosen to do a photo which looked to be made up entirely of blue, cream and

This bumper issue had something for everyone. Our February house party was remembered by social secretary Julia and by new member Claire.  Geert summarised his talk about the origin of map puzzles. Heather followed up her talk about more than

A hot summer’s day, and finally attendee numbers are back up to pre-pandemic levels. It was great to see some old friends again as well as some welcome fresh faces. BCD members Craig and Amelda of Puzzly set up a

These two talks were a real feast for the eyes, as well as being informative. Jackie Armstrong introduced us to the history of Artifact Puzzles from the USA, and showed us a ravishing display of different styles, including fancy edges,

This issue’s in the pink, with a colourful bouquet of spring flowers by Renoir on the cover. Winter and Spring were the themes of the January virtual meeting. Two Swedish club members talked about their puzzle collections: Per-Martin gave us

The Members website has been updated recently, so you can now search the content of individual BCD Magazines – with the search words highlighted in the text. If you have not registered with the Members website yet, you are missing

The new version of the Jigasaurus is now live, and has been redone to suit the latest web server software so it should be around for many years to come. David Shearer has been busy adding new jigsaw puzzles to

Who knew that being sent to Coventry would be so much fun? We soon settled in to our new venue, and the theme of ‘Favourite Puzzles’ unsurprisingly brought out a dazzling display of vintage and modern puzzles from 17 club