Our New Year's Eve tradition is to cook a nice meal, pop the telly on (generally Graham Norton's New Year's Eve show and then Jools Holland's Hootenanny) and do a jigsaw puzzle. Generally the full 1000 pieces in one night
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7 hours start to finish, almost exactly. But that included about an hour to make and eat tea, and a few other bits here and there. Would be quicker if we'd used the hints on the box (it's a Wasgij, so you don't actually have the picture you're making - so we figure it's more fun just to make it without any help at all).
Erm. We leave them around on the coffee table, vaguely admiring them and putting stuff on them and then eventually get round to packing them up. We make them on a Portapuzzle so we can just fold it up and store it. Then the next year on New Year's Eve we open it back up, admire the puzzle from the year before then break it up. They're blooding amazing - this is twice now that we've had jigsaws survive moving house in it.
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7 hours start to finish, almost exactly. But that included about an hour to make and eat tea, and a few other bits here and there. Would be quicker if we'd used the hints on the box (it's a Wasgij, so you don't actually have the picture you're making - so we figure it's more fun just to make it without any help at all).
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