Jigsaw 11, Series 3, Notice A

This evening I started what seems to have been the first jigsaw for a couple of years, with the last one that I can find being that noticed at reference 1. And the one before that four years before that, noticed at reference 2. With this one being a regular 500 piece puzzle from Ravensburger, rather than some exotic.

So far I have done the border, less four or five piece from the top right hand corner, including the corner piece. Very frustrating that I can't find any of them in the heap of other pieces. One might think that scanning the pieces, spread out flat on a table, they would leap into focus, but they don't. Maybe in the fresh light of morning they will so leap. Would the eyes do better if the pieces were all the wrong side up, the blue side up, rather than the picture side up? Does the picture distract the eyes from hunting down the edges?

Plus a couple of blobs of interior.

While the snap above arises from another favourite festive activity, checking yet another Agatha Christie adaptation with the words of the maestress. Divergences aside, and they were, as is usual with Marple intrusions, considerable, I was struck that a vicar's son in the late 1930's would be nonchalantly described as nonchalantly chucking an empty beer bottle into the heather out on some heath or other. Hadn't they heard of the environment or litter louts back then?

PS 1: I remember visiting the top of a popular, flat-topped mountain up north some where, probably forty or more years ago now, to find a great deal of orange peel strewn about. You might think that as vegetable matter it would all rot down, but it seems that orange peel takes a good long time so to do up in the cool mountain air.

PS 2: Monday morning: the missing edge pieces have failed to leap into focus, despite a good night's sleep. They continue to hide in plain sight. They continue to attract conspiracy theories, a common enough disease at this stage of the proceedings. On the upside, the blobs grow and the sorting continues.

Reference 1: psmv3: Jigsaw 10, Series 3. October, 2018.

Reference 2: psmv2: Jigsaw 9, Series 3. November, 2014.