Thrift store purchase (complete with helpful “all pieces” note). Really fun to put together - roofs first, then buildings, then the flowers at the bottom. A bit of a loose fit but who knows how many times it was done before.
Purchased on FB Marketplace, started in one house, carefully relocated to another house. I thought the sky and water would take a lot of time but slight variances in colour and a ribbon cut that makes highly variable piece shapes (angles, tab position) made it a very pleasant process! VIllager makes great puzzles with just the right level of fit and a beautiful matte finish.
Purchased in a FB sale and completed in March, a bit later than Chinese New Year as planned. It was my first puzzle (I think) by Lucia Heffernan, but now I see her art on a lot of Eurographics puzzles including a 500pc "Princess Bunny" puzzle I posted last week. Apart from the one missing piece in the tiger photo, I enjoyed this very much. It hits my sweet spot for collages -- enough variety to be interesting, but each image is big enough to effectively be a mini-puzzle of its own.
This called out to me from the shelf at my local Salvation Army and I ponied up the few dollars to bring it home. I sensed it was maybe a Ravensburger UK puzzle, which is not as common to find in Canada, and the brochure inside confirmed it. As the son of an engineer I'm drawn to civil engineering works, and truss bridges in particular. The Forth Bridge is one of the iconic structures in the world, and I'm pleased to report It's as much fun to assemble in puzzle form as it is to look at. Combining the Ravensburger quality we've come to expect with a lovely illustration by Dominic Davison of sunset, this was a very pleasant way to spend a few late-winter hours.
In April I completed 17 puzzles totalling 9098 pieces. I've shared one of them on Reddit already (the Wes Anderson "Movie Masters" 1000pc from Heye), and there are a few more I will share as single posts in the next few days. This post is for "the rest." Puzzles completed (in picture order):
I need to vent. Apologies.
This is the Honda Super One, introduced at the Tokyo Motor Show in 2025 and now (I think) available in Japan. It's marketed as an "electric city car" designed for "nimble and sporty driving." It measures 3.6m by 1.5m, and is 1.6m high.
The U of A's Parking Services issues $75 tickets (er, sorry, citations) to vehicles that park in a spot designated "small car" but are larger than their definition. Some of these signs include measurements and some don't, so it's up to you as the driver to dig through Parking Services website to find the definition of "small car" as having max length of 4.6m and a max height of 1.5m. Alberta's Traffic Safety Act does not have a statutory description of "small car" and most parking lots/parkades that mark stalls as being for "small car only" don't issue fines; it's basically there to limit their liability if you damage your vehicle in a tight parking space.
So, under their definition of a "small car" -- which is defined using no known standards -- the Honda Super One would violate the max height. So, for that matter, does the Fiat 500e and the Smart Fortwo, which a reasonable bystander would probably define as a small car. In fact, the only commercially-available cars in Canada lower than 1.5m are either performance cars (Mazda MX-5, Corvette, Porsche 911, Lotus Elise) or the 2026 Honda Civic. Corollas, Fits, Ioniqs, and Model 3s are all close, but above the 1.5m cutoff.
I get the need to designate some stalls this way to ensure good sight lines, especially in parkades and near stairwells. Using such a restrictive definition -- and making it hard to know what that restriction is -- seems like the motivation is not safety.