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 and a wealth of other articles.
Cliff Maddock supplied a thought-provoking interesting article “Too much of a good thing? or ‘Am i still a dissectologist?’, discussing both his collecting and puzzling and his perceived observation that the more ‘active’ current BCD members are perhaps more interested in the ‘challenge of the cut’ of a puzzle rather than the sheer enjoyment of its picture !
John Hyde wrote about the Christmas puzzles he presented at the Reigate meeting. Pete Day contributed an article on Clarence Lawson Wood, prolific, mostly humorous, artist and illustrator. David Shearer added another chapter in his “Wanderings of the Jigasaurus” series focusing on two library puzzles cut by Enid Stocken and Eric Bond, and their puzzlers’ comments on having assembled them.
This issue also included the regular members’ “Jigsaw Sales and Wants” insert, minutes and financial summary from the March AGM and a page of updates/amendments to the BCD Membership List.