Mappa Monday
What a stroke of luck! We finished a jigsaw puzzle late on Sunday evening, leaving ourselves plenty of time to take a few photos and get them uploaded to our puzzle gallery on Monday afternoon and — most importantly of all — enabling me to use a corny old pun as a post title.
This was the hardest puzzle we’d done for a long time. It’s all very well knowing where countries are and being able to reel off long lists of capital cities, but when the writing on both the box lid and the puzzle pieces is not only small but also in italic script, one must resort to desperate measures — which is why I had my Sherlock Holmes magnifying glass to hand all last week.
Around the edges of the map are scenes from Africa, Asia, America and Europe. The whole world, it seems, is full of wild animals and even wilder people. The oceans are no safer: they’re teeming with giant fish, big enough to swallow a ship whole, me hearties (says the tardy blogger, hoping to make up for missing last week’s ‘Talk like a pirate‘ day). For the scientifically inclined, the map also includes a zodiac and one of those armillarillarial — oh, to heck with it! — hooped spheres. Just think how much fun you could have rolling one of them over the edge of the flat Earth.
Eh? The Earth’s not flat? Get away! You’re pulling my leg! Who is this Galileo geezer anyway?