Nicki Barker hosted a most enjoyable June meeting in the village hall at Thornford near Sherborne. Attendees enjoyed their day, assembling puzzles, browsing the sales tables , catching up with friends and consuming cups of tea and coffee accompanied by plenty of cake!
The afternoon’s Show and Tell session had two themes: Jigsaw Puzzle Library puzzles, a subject of great interest to Nicki herself as well as chairman David Shearer who now also runs the British Jigsaw Puzzle Libary, and “Interesting Card Puzzles”, a subject that produced an equally varied display of puzzles to see and discuss.
The cardboard puzzles shown included a US lake view one by Tuco, die cut using thick card similar to that used for wallboard by an American construction company and a 1930’s Daily Mail partly-interlocking competition puzzle with a then enormous £3,000 prize for naming the 14 films pictured in it!
On the library puzzle theme, Jackie showed a member’s report from a Newport Library puzzle and among puzzles discussed were a Pears Print “Family Worship” from Miss Hobson’s Club in Spalding and two from the British Puzzle Library, “Two Points of View” and Enid Stocken’s “Spinning Wool”.
Tom also showed and discussed Chad Valley’s “Dragonsland”, a puzzle with all but the outer frame comprised of a spectacular variety of colourful whimsies.