Sandra normally writes the jigsaw posts, but she’s been busy so I’ll write this as a placeholder.

I chose this puzzle as being different from anything we’ve done before, but also as one that had lots of detail that would help Sandra pick out the pieces more easily. I was wrong. It was quite a challenge because it turned out that the details were often repeated, but in different combinations. The cunning artist has included at least two painters, all the flowers are red, red coats with tails flapping abound and the metal ornaments all look very similar when you only see a single arc.

Sandra took all this in stride, though, and did almost the entire left side of the puzzle on her own while also helping me with parts of the right side. I can only claim the sky and roofline as entirely my own.

There’s a second part to this picture – a daytime scene to the left – which we may attempt in future.