Danny Burn (or Byrne, if you prefer the spelling on his own website to that on the box lid of our centuries-old Waddingtons puzzle) is an excellent cartoonist. His work has appeared in numerous newspapers and he was accepted into the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 2008.

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 of our ‘pre-owned’ purchases, the answer sheet was missing.

Oh, er, and Shana also finished most of the sky after I got all my clouds mixed up.

The 33 differences, for anyone else who is without the solution to this puzzle, are as follows:

1. Ginger cat (behind vicar) missing.
2. Grey cat (next to woman with vicar) is now ginger.
3. Missing ball near player at rear of croquet lawn.
4. Red cap on blonde croquet player.
5. Small goose on croquet lawn.
6. Vicar’s teacup is red.
7. Man in green jumper to right of lawn has brown hair.
8. Sunbather on yellow, not mauve, towel.
9. Man at dining table wearing purple jumper.
10. Fruit, instead of cake, on plate.
11. Woman in foreground in yellow, not white, dress.
12. Man at table near flower show tent is wearing a hat.
13. Flower show tent canopy has green and white stripes.
14. Red vase on unoccupied dining table.
15. Extra goose near tables.
16. Woman in striped skirt on path facing left instead of right.
17. Man in green jacket on yellow path.
18. Person in blue jumper at far side of flower tent is missing.
19. Extra goldfish in pond.
20. Extra silver-grey fish in pond.
21. Extra lily pad in pond.
22. Different time on church clock.
23. Right hand side church door is a lighter colour.
24. Reddish-orange tree behind maze.
25. Extra window on house second from left.
26. Brown hills in background to right of church.
27. Person at centre of maze wearing green or blueish jumper.
28. Woman in green, not mauve, jumper at dining table to right of flower tent.
29. Bird perched on top of flower show tent.
30. Boy to left of fountain wearing brown pants instead of blue.
31. Bottles in fisherman’s box.
32. Missing bush to right of flower show tent.
33. Extra cloud second from right.

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, scattering both sandcastles and sunbathers far and wide. There’s danger in the fairground, too, as the sign next to the ferris wheel boasts of its being ‘not the biggest, but the fastest’, and people are flung off into the path of ravenous seagulls and oncoming hang-gliders.

Only at a Dick Bogie seaside does it fail to rain all week, but then who needs slippery pavements? In a Dick Bogie cartoon life is dangerous enough already.