Our second online show and tell meeting was again enjoyed by over 30 members who ‘Zoom’ed in to join us from around the world. Alan’s puzzles were a Thelwell cartoon “Water Jump” and a Pears print “Impudent Hussies painted in 1902 by artist Mary Groves. David followed with another vintage Pears print, a 249 piece solid wood puzzle “Make Way, We’re Comin’ Through” and his second was the psychedelic “Mushroom Trippy Land Weed Sun Bong Fantasy”, Puzzlewood cut of a Mike Dubois image.
Deb first puzzle was “All about Ghosts”, a Stratford Puzzles, 300+ cardboard piece, 1930’s image of a grandfather reading a bed-time ghost story to his grandson but scaring himself more than the boy! “Light of Other Days”, was next, a 575 piece, colour line, push fit puzzle showing a group of boys throwing snowballs at a sentry in his box and finished with a 1926 Parker Pastime Puzzle Contest set comprising four individual boxes each housing a different puzzle.
Emma had just one, bright and colourful 100 piece Ravensburger What If? Puzzle No.2, “Garden Open Day”. Jackie was next with a lovely 321 piece Puzzlewood shaped, 3D enhanced puzzle of Owen Wood’s ‘Beautiful Pea-Green Boat’ illustration for Edward Lear’s “The Owl & The Pussycat”. Following this was another Wood illustration, one of three characters from Lear limericks, “Lady of Rye”, cut in a Figure-It-Out style by Le Colimacon. She finished with a Raphael Tuck, Zag Zaw 600 piece “John Gilpin Rides”.
Jeanne started with an old Par puzzle “High diddle diddle”, followed with a small interlocking puzzle of Dickens character Toby Weller from his “The Pickwick Papers” novel. Her third was an untitled US puzzle of a cartoon-like beach barbeque in the snow, and last “The Eavesdropper”, a 100 piece Victory Super-Cut puzzle showing another beach scene.
John followed with two offerings probably, by the same, unknown cutter. His first “The Spectator” a 330 piece push-fit puzzle sub-titled “The man who …. coughed?!”, and the second a similar styled “Elephant Polo”, showing four Indian gents wielding polo sticks atop an elephant and seeing off the opposition below them on their horses. 
Marie’s one puzzle was a Charles Crombie cartoon “Where shall I drop you?” A reasonable question from a cabbie but this being an aerial taxi, the passenger is wide-eyed, open mouthed & looking aghast, seemingly having taken the question literally!
Next was Robin’s puzzle “Say When, Sir” showing a butler showering both himself and his guest with champagne. Pete’s puzzles were: “The Fatalist”, a 100 piece showing Bruce Bairnsfather’s famous WW1 anti-hero “Old Bill; “A Game of Patience”; another small push fit puzzle of a Clarence Lawson Wood painting and “Tete de Clowne”, a bright 1000 piece portrait of a doleful looking clown painted in 1955 by Bernard Buffet, from Vera’s excellent Arte Moderne series.
Heather’s were all her own work. The first a rather rude snow sculpture built right outside the front door of the local Inland Revenue offices, from a John Witt Christmas card. Her other two puzzles both featured a cat as the main protagonist. “Life is Good” and “Busking in St.Petersburg” painted by Vladimir Rumyantsev, born in 1957 and a member of society of water colorists of St. Petersburg.
Tom concluded proceedings with another Thelwell image, “In Hot Pursuit”, waterjet cut by PG Puzzle showing Santa being given a lift by a typical Thelwell rider and steed, frantically chasing his runaway reindeer and sleigh. He rounded off with two Giles puzzles, “The Giant Snowball” and a special one based on the RNLI Christmas Card of Grandma and Co. decorating a tree at the Lifeboat station that Wentworth could never put this into production for copyright reasons.