Jigsaw 13, Series 2

The twin of Jigsaw 10 of 11th March, bought on the same occasion. But while the puzzle was OK, the image irritated. Described as 'London Market' it looked more like a still life confected by the photographer from the sort of stuff you might find in a suburban flower shop, with the strange and improbable looking wheel barrow being particularly irritating. Sufficiently irritating that the puzzle will be recycled to a charity shop instanter, contrary to my usual practise of keeping them. More favoured ones in an upper bedroom cupboard, less favoured ones in the roof. I have yet to try to repeat a puzzle once solved, but I have not, hitherto or nevertheless cared to get rid of them.

Started with the edge in the usual way. Then the left hand bucket, then the smaller, right hand bucket. Red tulips above the right hand bucket, then worked up through the upper flowers. Then the lower flowers.

This left me with a rather large heap of dull coloured pieces. Little in the way of distinguishing features at first  glance. But, rightly as it turned out, I thought that the lower barrow handle would provide a way in. From there to the rest of the barrow, ending with the upper handle, then polished off the brown paper beneath the yellow tulips which had been left aside.

Then the green curtains top left, then closed with the dark area bottom left.

As is often the case, colour was the key for a lot of the time. One attuned to the subtle variations in the green of the top left - not much like the green of the image when in a piece - and was able to select pieces to try on the basis of their colour. Some pieces were selected on the basis of an odd prong shape, but not many, the puzzle being as regular as its twin. A small number of quite distinctive pieces were seen wrong. That is to say, one was sure that they were not the right piece for some particular position, so sure that one did not try. But then, coming back a few hours later, the brain cleared and was able to position the once wrong piece in its right position.

Despite colour, shape and the generally positive fit of the (thick) pieces, I managed to make a number of mistakes along the way, with most in the dark area. But they were not large mistakes and order was restored on each occasion, after a bit of fiddling around.

And now for a special visit to a charity shop. We will make the necessary selection - the choice in our neighbourhood being large - over our morning toast. But will BH argue that the very modest price of the thing means that the petrol to get it to a charity shop is not justified?

PS: a plus point for the Windows 8 version of Chrome. The way it deals with blog illustrations is much improved. Click on the image to get enlarged version overlaying the blog, click on the 'X' top right to get rid of it again. Much better than what there was before.