This was a double pack in the Best of British series, with two 500-piece puzzles with images of the Wiltyn Badleigh Garden Center. The last puzzles I completed in Dotmund before leaving on March 3. Who knows when I’ll be back.
Both of these were great fun to assemble with lots of funny details.
Tonight it will be 108 years since the Titanic hit an iceberg and went down in the early hours of April 15, 1912. I’ve always had a thing for shipwrecks (also air disasters), and I read quite a few books about the Titanic back in the ’90s. I’m not a fan of the 1997 film, though. The only thing I really enjoyed about that were the scenes where you could see how the ship worked, that was amazing, but I had no interest in the story. For the final hour, I thought it would never end, and I was sitting there thinking “Just die already”. There was a British mini-series in 2012 to mark the centenary, I enjoyed that a lot more. There’s also a film from 1958 called A Night to Remember, but it’s so long since I’ve seen it that I don’t remember much about it (heh). I have the DVD, perhaps I’ll pull it out tonight to refresh my memory.
Anyway, the puzzle 🙂 It wasn’t the easiest Titanic puzzle that I’ve ever done, there’s a lot of blue, but there’s still enough variation in shades to help quite a lot. It was very enjoyable despite being challenging at times, and Clementoni puzzles have great quality.
I did the text above the ship and the White Star flags first, then on to the ship itself.
I have to say I love 500-piece Clementonis, pretty much regardless of image. The quality is great, and even though this isn’t my favourite image of all time, I still enjoyed it a lot!
A great educational puzzle presenting the geological eras and when different forms of life evolved.
While there was lots of text, much of it is so small that you need a magnifying glass to read it. The maps on the left and the coloured squares on the right were rather easy, but the tableaus in the middle took a bit longer.
Great and very detailed image by Steve Read. It was great fun, I always enjoy painted cakes. This is puzzle number 5 in the Ravensburger My Haven series. The series is produced for the UK market, which means it’s more expensive for me, normally I would expect to pay about 15 EUR for a 1000-piece Ravensburger, but the UK ones cost about 20-25 EUR.
Stacey of My Jigsaw Journal just posted about a 2000-piece Buffalo puzzle with the same image. Well, almost the same image. I can’t see any other differences, but outside the door of the Buffalo puzzle there’s a van and a dog, but here you can see two women. I think one of them has ordered a cake and is picking it up.
I got this wonderful puzzle in a swap with Stacey from My Jigsaw Journal. It’s from the MoMA Collection of Galison. Great quality and I love the image! I also enjoyed the irregular cut.
I actually expected this to be a bit more difficult, but it turned out to be pretty easy to pull out all the pieces of a particular colour. I then completed many of the arcs and later put them all together. Definitely not a puzzle where you start with the edges 🙂
Thank you again, Stacey, it’s a great puzzle!
A wonderful Heye puzzle from 1992. The cut is great, with many variations, and of course, I love the image. This is my official “I miss football”-post. I know there are more important things, especially right now, but I do miss it, both the game itself and the whole experience in the stadium. The Bundesliga is, of course, suspended, and it’s uncertain if it will be possible to play out the season. Even if it is, it will probably be without spectators, to empty stadiums.
I’m in Finland, working from home. When I last left Dortmund on March 3, I thought I would be back in 10 days, but now I know, I won’t be able to get there before the summer. Dortmund and Germany seem very far away right now. Apart from missing football and Germany, I am fine. I’m healthy, and I can do my job from home just fine, I even quite enjoy it. I hope all of you are also safe and well!
An old Heye (I think late ’70s or early ’80s), two pieces missing. Featuring the only snow I’ve seen this year. It was a miserable winter in the south of Finland.
The puzzle was quite easy, despite all the white areas.
I had more fun with this than I had any right to. Blachon is not my favourite artist, and the puzzle is busier than I usually prefer, but somehow I loved every minute 🙂
There were some fun details including … a foot fetishist?
I love the St Bernard sheep 🙂
The thing that made me most happy with this puzzle was that the quality was great. I had a bad experience, quality-wise, with a Heye from 2016, and this is from 2019. So, perhaps they tried using thinner cardboard for a year but then went back to better quality. I also opened one of the puzzles I bought from this year’s releases, and that’s fine too. I’m so relieved!
I originally completed this in 2017, but I have no photo of that. Later I took the puzzle to work, where both staff and customers have worked on it. There’s a piece missing in the photo, but I found it after I had taken the puzzle apart. Yes Roomba, I’m looking at you again.
A very enjoyable puzzle! The pieces for most of the different bottles were easy to pick out, and at the end, I was left with a small number of white(ish) pieces.
I was moved to have a glass of port 🙂
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