Jigsaw 11, Series 3, Notice C

This being the third notice of festive jigsaw action, the second being at reference 1. 

I offer a diagram of the jigsaw, rather than the jigsaw itself, in order to preserve the privacy of those concerned, a diagram which is intended to suggest the main lines of action. A brown varnished floor, with some image processing artefact (rather than a Powerpoint artefact) suggesting the planks, at least on the laptop on which I type. A brown cardboard box, open and slightly damaged. Two persons sitting in the box, the right hand person being slightly larger than the left hand person. Stuff - animal, vegetable and mineral - visible between.

The fourth day opened with a strong spurt first thing in the morning, jigsaws having re-entered their addictive phase. This left the planks and the box complete, the two heads near complete and the stuff in-between coming on. Back from the daily spin around Jubilee Way and a further spurt saw it finished.

With the grey area of darkness just inside most of the box functioning in the way of the sky in a regular jigsaw. Completed, once I was down to between fifty and a hundred pieces, by means of the fourth of the four modes of operation listed at reference 1. Much quicker than it might look on the page. Very quick once I was down to a few long thin strips of clear water, each one piece wide.

And along way, quite a few surprises of the colour variety. A piece which was entirely wrong in the heap, fitted and which looked entirely right when in position. Quite a few of the surprises arising from the fair hair, which seemed to come, in the heap, in all kinds of strange colours.

Leaving me with a small heap of the distinctive fine dust you get from a new jigsaw. Debris, one supposes, from the cutting of the pieces and their subsequent separation. I wonder now how, in a factory, this last is done.

An entirely satisfactory reminder of my lapsed passion for jigsaws, some notice of which is to be found at reference 2.

The only catch was that around ten pieces (of the 500) from the top right hand corner were indeed missing, a clump of seven and a clump of three. The fact that we had two clumps in the corner suggested something going wrong in the factory, rather than in the home, although we did take a careful look. Something going wrong which would have been picked up by weighing the bagged jigsaw, so they clearly didn't bother with that.

Negotiations with the vendor will be opened shortly.

Reference 1: psmv4: Jigsaw 11, Series 3, Notice B.

Reference 2: psmv2: Search results for jigsaw series.