Jigsaws

Mike did a lot of jigsaws while he was here. They turned out to be good for his skin too - when he ran out of them for a few days he ended up with a pressure sore because he sat in one place for too long, whereas when he is doing a jigsaw he is moving about and changing position. So once he had done every jigsaw in the house (of which there were many), Jayne and I made it a mission to keep him supplied. We borrowed them from friends, bought them online, I picked one up from a box outside a house up the road that said "free to good home" and Jayne got them from a work colleague.

It is a good place to do jigsaws as we can set up a large board which is not in the way of anything, so does not have to be moved, the light is very good and Mike can move around and can have several trays of pieces on the go.

So here they are - mainly in the order in which they were done - and the date completed

This one was a present from Carolyn at Christmas. 2000 pieces. Completed 21 March.

I picked this one up in a charity shop before Mike came down and before they all closed. 2000 pieces. Completed 1 April.

These are smaller puzzles - the top two are quite old and are 500 pieces, the bottom one is one of the Ringing World Wentworth wooden puzzles with whimzies. Completed 8 April.

The bottom two of these are more Wentworth wooden puzzles. The top one was bought from the Convent Summer Sale for 50p - there's another crossword on the back! Three pieces missing. Completed 15 April.

More Wentworth wooden puzzles - the bottom one was lent to us by Caroline Ogilvie. Completed 16 April.

And here they are again with a couple more of the Wentworth wooden ones. Completed 17 April.

Another charity shop one - 1000 pieces. Completed 20 April.

Another Wentworth one - also with the whimzies removed. Completed 24 April

The last of the Wentworths - and another 1000 piece. Completed 26 April

Magdalen College - by a Foot artist. One of my favourites. 1000 pieces. Completed 28 April.

That completed all the ones that were in the house. This was ordered online - when it became clear another one was needed! 2000 pieces. Took Mike 10 days ! Started 12 May - completed 22 May.

This one was borrowed from Ann and Douglas. 1000 pieces. Completed 24 May

This one was in the box outside someone's house free to good home. 1000 pieces. one piece missing and one piece from another jigsaw! Completed 27 May

These two were borrowed from a friend, Jackie. 500 pieces each. Completed 30 May.

The next two were borrowed from Jackie - delivered to the doorstep by James, her son. 1000 pieces each. Places she had been on holiday. Completed 2 Jun and 6 Jun respectively

This is the first of the ones Jayne brought home from work - borrowed from a colleague who belongs to a jigsaw club! 1000 pieces. Completed 7 June.

Another one from Jayne's work - this one took Mike a week - reminds me of Where's Wally! 1000 pieces. Completed 12 June

And another from Jayne's work friend - took only a few days. 2000 pieces. One piece missing. Completed 15 June.

This one came from the Mare and Foal charity shop - I had seen this one in the window but of course the shop was shut all through lock down. When the restrictions where lifted on non-essential shops, Jayne and I saw the door was open and tried to go in, but the man in there said he was only in there cleaning and the shop wasn't open. So I begged him to sell me the jigsaw in the window - and he did. Completed 23rd June. 2000 pieces - one piece missing.

Another from Jayne's work friend - very busy and reminded me of Enid Blyton illustrations. 1000 pieces completed 27th June.

This was the final one of the 5 brought back from work by Jayne. They all seem to have the inevitable one piece missing! 1000 pieces completed 1 July.

These two came from Liverton. The nice one of the plane was loaned by Jackie and the other I picked up in the books etc swap set up in the village. Both are 500 pieces and each took about 3 hours to complete! 2 and 3 July respectively.

Another one loaned by Jackie - she has been here on holiday but I can't remember where it is! Completed 14 July.

These were borrowed from Peter - completed 19 July

These four from Jayne's work completed 25 July

And these on 26th July!

This is one of several Wasgij puzzles borrowed from Jayne's friend, Lyn. Completed 30 July

Not sure where this one came from. Completed 1 August

Completed 7 August.

More wasgijs. Completed 31 August

Completed 3 September

Completed 6 September

Completed 9 September

Completed 14 September

Completed 27 September

Completed 4 October

Completed 25 October

Completed 18 November

Four children's jigsaws from a charity shop which Jayne wanted to check were complete! Took Mike about 5 mins to complete all four - 21 November

Another from Jayne's work - completed 23 November

And another - completed 22 December

This was a present from John - a model of Notre Dame made from hundreds of pieces (that's just one sheet of them in front of Mike in the first photo) which opens up to reveal the interior! Mike started it on Boxing Day and had it finished two days later.

I gave Mike a 2000 piece jigsaw I had had made from a photo of the river and the old mill wheel which I took on my exercise walk around Bovey (see post My Exercise Walk Round Town). It was very well made and came in a nice tin. Completed 2 January 2021.