This was one Duncan found at a garage sale or something, but originally from the National Gallery. It was actually factory sealed so I was pretty grunty that once again they managed to lose pieces from it.
However, the quality was so shocking that it's entirely possible the pieces were never there. Basically the pieces are *almost* identical in shape, which means they'd fit on three sides and *still* be wrong. The bits where there was colour it wasn't so bad, but the black bit in the corner couldn't be finished without redoing the twenty-odd pieces over and over again until the right combination could be found. I said screw that, and shoved them in any old way for the photo.
Given it was from the National Gallery it was probably expensive, I'd have been pissed if I'd bought this new.
Not sure where this one came from. May have been the common area. I recognise the mountains on the far side from our cruise up and down Lake Como in 2022, but haven't gotten around to finding out where this was taken.
This was a Ravensburger 1500 piece jigsaw I picked up at the Green Shed, so it was impressive that it was complete. The problem is all that blue. I did this downstairs and was able to get everything else done last summer. But it sat untouched over winter because it was just too damned hard. In spring I decided it really needed doing by the end of the year and if I did five pieces a day it'd get done. Did that for a while and eventually was able to get going on it a bit faster and finished it late November.
I can't remember where this one came from. I'm pretty sure it got started when David was living here though, or maybe during a visit. It's trash though - the pieces are almost identical and fit when they're wrong. Life is too short for trashy jigsaws so I didn't even get back into it, just laid it out for a photo and packed it all up. This was by Holdson / Ambassador if you're looking for brands to avoid.
This was a nice 500 piece jigsaw from the Green Shed that said "complete". Yeah not anymore it's not. This is why you store your puzzles in baggies people, to stop handfuls of pieces at a time being lost all over the Green Shed floor..
This one of the Exhibition Building in Melbourne was another Holdson/Ambassador jigsaw from the same series as the trash "Autumn Scene, Victoria" one above. I was all set to put this one away again untouched if the cut had been the same. But it was a better cut. Not perfect and pieces would still fit even when wrong, but it wasn't too bad in the end, and even more impressive that it was complete, given it was another Green Shed jigsaw.
And this one of Asakusa and the Sky Tree in Tokyo we borrowed from the common area.
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