A lovely light spacious Grayswood Village Hall just to the North East of Haslemere was the venue for the June meeting. Sadly, long-time member and organiser John Jenvey was ill and couldnt join us but our thanks to him for arranging the day. Just over 30 members, including several newcomers, attended and enjoyed some stimulating puzzling, a challenging “Underground, Overground …” Show & Tell session and an interesting “Rivers” puzzles talk from stalwart speaker, John Hyde.
Among the puzzles displayed for the Show & Tell session were two different Chad Valley Wookey Hole puzzles and two of Holzapffel’s splendid Figure It Out series, “Bluebird” and “Quality Street”. Two others brought along for members to put together on the day, a 1375 piece “The Businessman’s London” and a lovely vibrantly coloured deco-style “Underground”, depicting the occupants of an underground carriage, proved too tricky to complete in time, but were completed after the meeting and pictures of them included in BCD magazine Issue 121.
Highlights of the Rivers talk were “The River of Life” – a Meredith Worsfold cut puzzle of a Tiffany stained glass window, a superb 1000 piece Raphael Tuck puzzle “Valley of the Shenandoah” – a magnificent painting of the Virginian river by Scottish artist Andrew Melrose and a particular favourite of John’s, “River Thames from The Yacht Inn at Greenwich”.