in which I giggle a lot
Feb. 13th, 2021 10:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberettSo! We have, via one of A's relatives, a baffling M&S jigsaw puzzle: it's a 500-piece map of London partially in German frommm around the latter half of the 19th century.
A's inclination was to stick it in the charity shop pile; I went "no, hold on, I want to do it at least once" and hoicked it back out.
A, having started from a position of "I'm not interested in jigsaw puzzles and I won't be joining in"... not only got sucked in on the first attempt at completion, but also, this week, sadly decreed that He Wanted To Do A Jigsaw, No, A Real Physical One, but that he'd been unable to find any others online that he liked the look of and he didn't know what he was doing wrooooong.
Ooh, says I, I have a shortlist of puzzles I'd Like To Get Around To Reacquiring One Day, they're mostly from about the 80s but they are available second-hand, do you want a list...?
Anyway. The point is that I airily suggested a 1000-piece black-and-white Escher puzzle (Reptiles, in fact, available new from the M. C. Escher company), and A cheerfully decided that this seemed like a good idea and Acquired it.
It arrived a little earlier in the week; we finished our second run-through of the map of London earlier today and got started on the Escher this evening.
... whereupon Adam was extremely dismayed to discover that it's not all slots-and-tabs, right, some of it's "weird crinkly edges", in that he was going through the box pulling out "edges" and I had to go "... ah. no. no that piece of mottled grey you've just pulled out? that's not. an edge. look."
much comic outrage followed and I have been extremely giggly all evening, especially during the Involved Adventure of trying to work out what to transfer the puzzle onto given that... our coffee table is, as we discovered when we'd done most of the edges, too small. (I wound up cannibalising one of the large cardboard boxes that our 25kg flour sacks get delivered in, which had been waiting to get taken out to the recycling at a point when it was neither sub-zero nor Precipitating. And then re-cannibalising it, when A declared -- not unreasonably -- that my first attempt was a terrible idea, being still slightly smaller than the puzzle itself and also thick enough that using it as an extension of the table was going to be... wretched at the join.)
Anyway. Yes. Ottolenghi-at-home dinner, courtesy of A's company's meal-for-two thanks-for-doing-out-of-hours-work vouchers, plus a ridiculous puzzle, and I am extremely cheerful.
A's inclination was to stick it in the charity shop pile; I went "no, hold on, I want to do it at least once" and hoicked it back out.
A, having started from a position of "I'm not interested in jigsaw puzzles and I won't be joining in"... not only got sucked in on the first attempt at completion, but also, this week, sadly decreed that He Wanted To Do A Jigsaw, No, A Real Physical One, but that he'd been unable to find any others online that he liked the look of and he didn't know what he was doing wrooooong.
Ooh, says I, I have a shortlist of puzzles I'd Like To Get Around To Reacquiring One Day, they're mostly from about the 80s but they are available second-hand, do you want a list...?
Anyway. The point is that I airily suggested a 1000-piece black-and-white Escher puzzle (Reptiles, in fact, available new from the M. C. Escher company), and A cheerfully decided that this seemed like a good idea and Acquired it.
It arrived a little earlier in the week; we finished our second run-through of the map of London earlier today and got started on the Escher this evening.
... whereupon Adam was extremely dismayed to discover that it's not all slots-and-tabs, right, some of it's "weird crinkly edges", in that he was going through the box pulling out "edges" and I had to go "... ah. no. no that piece of mottled grey you've just pulled out? that's not. an edge. look."
much comic outrage followed and I have been extremely giggly all evening, especially during the Involved Adventure of trying to work out what to transfer the puzzle onto given that... our coffee table is, as we discovered when we'd done most of the edges, too small. (I wound up cannibalising one of the large cardboard boxes that our 25kg flour sacks get delivered in, which had been waiting to get taken out to the recycling at a point when it was neither sub-zero nor Precipitating. And then re-cannibalising it, when A declared -- not unreasonably -- that my first attempt was a terrible idea, being still slightly smaller than the puzzle itself and also thick enough that using it as an extension of the table was going to be... wretched at the join.)
Anyway. Yes. Ottolenghi-at-home dinner, courtesy of A's company's meal-for-two thanks-for-doing-out-of-hours-work vouchers, plus a ridiculous puzzle, and I am extremely cheerful.
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Date: 2021-02-14 01:16 pm (UTC)Oh! The box might say? Somewhere? But online listings definitely should!
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Date: 2021-02-17 12:03 am (UTC)Biggest drawback to jigsaw puzzling is getting bored with the images: M C Escher solves this problem nicely.