Paul Lamond Games are still going strong after 25 years and we have just done one of their Spot the Difference puzzles. Each completed puzzle has 33 differences between itself and the picture on the box lid. I spotted the first twenty-odd differences and Shana spotted the rest, which is good, because, this being another [...]

Dick Bogie’s humorous tour de force, ‘The Great British Seaside’, is in the tradition of the great British seaside postcard. Little donkeys try to give rides to oversized women, swimming costumes become mysteriously attached to the ends of fishing lines dangled by men on the end of the pier; and, inevitably, dogs run amok, [...]

Fairytales never seem to obey the laws of reality, and the tales depicted in James Christensen’s ‘Fairytales’ jigsaw are no exception. In real life, the three bears wouldn’t have had long to wait to find out who’d been eating their porridge and who’d been sleeping in their beds: the bears’ house in Christensen’s picture is [...]

Having trouble with a jigsaw puzzle? Finding some of the pieces a bit confusing? Strangely, this could be a good sign. The human brain, it seems, is wired to detect patterns. In prehistoric times, this helped us to survive, by enabling us to spot both prey and predator. It’s what helps us to recognize both [...]