I Love Picking Up The Pieces
February Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Love & Hearts”
All that glitters is not gold.
I love jigsaw puzzles.
And just as Rome wasn’t completed in a day, neither was my latest jigsaw puzzle.
Since the Covid lockdown, when we were confined to four walls, prisoners in our own homes, some of us found solace in rediscovering old forgotten hobbies, including doing the good old-fashioned jigsaw puzzle. Well, at least I did.
Sales of these rocketed in 2021 and jigsaw puzzles became the norm as Christmas and birthday presents, just as they had when I was a child in the 1960s.
Fiddling about with the pieces occupies the mind, relieves boredom and, so I am told, helps improve our short-term memory and visual-spatial reasoning.
However, they can be [insert favourite euphemism here] frustrating. My son decided the ones I had been doing were far too easy and bought me a really difficult one — a 1500-piece Mindbogglers (that’s what it says on the box) St. Peter’s Basilica jigsaw puzzle.
I relished the prospect of the challenge, but after a few days, I found progress slow. It became a battle of wits. I wasn’t going to let it beat me. But I was spending too much time on it…
