The Puzzle. It's finished. Now what??

The Puzzle. It's finished. Now what??

One of the things we used to get for Christmas when we were young and was very popular was a jigsaw puzzle. In fact we used to call them “jigsaws”. You ask for a jigsaw these days and you'll get a fancy tool for cutting wood.

Mike has always liked to do jigsaws and in fact other puzzles as well. His whole family liked to do them and often a puzzle would be set up on a side table and everyone would put in pieces whenever they passed by or actually found a piece that fitted. It was a standard joke that Grandad Percy, would actually force pieces into a place to make them fit thereby messing up the whole thing!

This year I decided to get Mike a puzzle for Christmas as a change from doing his Sudoku puzzles. That was quite a job as the very few puzzles I could find in the stores were kid's puzzles .These all had few pieces and cute cartoon type pictures. I was very happy when I went in to the British Emporium, our local store that sells all things British, and found 3 jigsaw puzzles to choose from and what 's more, they featured all past era railways poster pictures. Railways and trains being another one of Mike's interests, this would be just the job.

This puzzle was such a good one as well.Lots of areas of just plain colors, much more difficult to do. It was big , 20" x 25" with about 1000 pieces and should keep Mike going for quite a while.

He started solving the puzzle shortly after Christmas and finished it today. It probably took around 14 hours, total working time .We had made bets that he would be at it until Easter especially when he first tipped it out of the box and saw all the tiny pieces.

Well Done MIKE!!

Now we have 2 new things to figure out.

What to do with the puzzle?

And where can we get another one?

Anyone have any puzzles hiding in the back of a cupboard in a box we can borrow???