pot luck

We bought 4 jigsaws at Sunday's church jigsaw sale. They are beautiful quality. Thick wood, with unusual pieces - convention-defying straight pieces randomly distributed throughout the middle of the jigsaw, the odd circle, and several intricate birds or squirrels. They are much harder than traditional jigsaws as they don't follow the rules. You can't pigeon-hole a piece as an edge or an inner piece as it could go anywhere. Two we chose for the picture, and two are "pot luck" ones, meaning there is no image on the box to follow. This of course makes the task even harder. I sometimes do jigsaws by holding up a piece and scanning the cover to see if I can isolate exactly where it goes. I don't do jigsaws with a repeating pattern as I suspect I wouldn't get any satisfaction from it - it's the matching of the changing tones that I enjoy rather than the challenge of the near impossible. Last night, with one child ill and the other intrigued by the concept, we attempted - and completed - one of the pot luck ones. I really really enjoyed it. The mystery, not knowing at all what it might be but quickly picking up clues - "this looks like the headlight of a car!" The gradually piecing similar parts together knowing that it will come together even tho you don't understand how it might end up.

I'm sure I don't need to draw the analogies :) So even though I have no idea what the end result is going to look like, I intend trying to enjoy each unexpected piece along the way :D

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I'm hoping I've not got flu. My girly is still off and I keep telling myself I have just a heavy cold. Hopefully after a rest day today we'll both be well tomorrow? I'm definitely getting worse which is not good :( But I did manage to do lots of work from home cos I can still talk on the phone :)
I also broke a drinking glass and couldn't quite believe just how many tiny splinters of glass it produced!!