Archive for July, 2008
Shop till you drop
Posted on July 29th, 2008 by puzzler
Jan van Haasteren’s comic puzzles always cheer us up. His pictures contain a lot of falls, near misses or accidents about to happen. Look out for his shark fin signature: a sure sign of an excellent puzzle.
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Candy Corner
Posted on July 19th, 2008 by puzzler
This Malcolm Root picture features, as you might expect, an old delivery van. Our attention was focused more on the sweetie shop, though. Is that a big jar of gobstoppers I saw in the window, or is my appetite deceiving me?
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The Six Million Dollar Man
Posted on July 1st, 2008 by puzzler
A speculative buy, this one. Collectors will want this little 300-piece gem, I thought. They’ll pay big money for it. Well, perhaps, in a couple of decades. But our investment was only 50p, so we’re not too worried. We both remember Lee Majors as bionic Steve Austin in the Six Million Dollar Man telly series [...]
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