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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

Rosemary and John Schofield hosted our last meeting, way back in November, and a very eventful meeting it was! The theme was “Children at Play” and again a great variety of interesting themed puzzles were in evidence, both being assembled

I’m pleased to report that the Gallery of photographs of puzzles shown at recent meeting is now back . There are a wide variety of puzzles to see there now and more will be added in the coming months, so

A great picture of Holtzapffel’s wonderful “Chicken Licken” puzzle featured on the front cover of Issue 134 and the magazine duly contained quite a lot of content about the September bird-themed Alton meeting (see previous post for more details of

Thanks to Peter and Margaret Bell for hosting a successful September meeting in Alton, where the theme was “Birds”. Over 30 attendees enjoyed the opportunity to indulge in a day’s puzzling among like-minded friends, old and new. The day was