Now, the vicar has been worrying about my sanity of late. It all started last year when she gave me a forty-two piece wooden jigsaw of a lot of penguins. That blasted jigsaw just about put me in the nut-house! It took me three hours to complete it. Then somebody else gave me a thousand piece jigsaw. I spent weeks and months struggling with it and if I had any hair I would have pulled it out, but then gave it up as a bad job. Well, Christmas came again again and guess what my reverend so-called friend put among my pressies? That's right another jigsaw. Two hundred and fifty pieces this time and it was a map of my local area which again has me in tears. I did tell her not to buy me a jiggie for Christmas but did she listen? NO!!!. So, enjoy this post as it could be a long time before I get enough sanity back to write another one.
When we first started our phone calls (after I lost my wife of fifty three years)it was a ten minute chat, but sometimes now it is forty five minutes. She will keep butting in when I am in full flow so I blame her for the length. But we laugh a lot and I hope the vicar enjoys our morning chats as much as I do. Some of the long words I say may not be quite right but she gets enormous pleasure when she corrects me.
I hope you are all in he best of health and that the good Lord is taking care of you. I hope I can write again soon (the vicar is the editor so she gets the last word. She also gets the last word if I text.
Keep smiling
Jack
PS. This is the vicar getting the last word. Jack will read and enjoy your comments but cannot reply to them.
Well done Jack for persevering with the Jigsaws. A good hobby for long winter evenings.
ReplyDeleteJack the female always gets the last word! I'm with you on jigsaw puzzles, I can't be bothered with them.
ReplyDeleteMorning Jack. Puzzles are good for the brain so they say, see the vicar is challenging you again! Good to see you wearing red and white although, I doubt you are a Bristol City fan like our family.
ReplyDeleteI don't do jigsaw puzzles as they drive me bonkers, so Jack I don't blame you for throwing up your hands in despair. Glad to know that other than never getting the last word you are doing well.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Fellow jigsaw puzzle foe here. We started one in April 2020 as a Covid stay home activity and nearly a year later finally boxed it back up, incomplete.
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to hear from you again, Jack. Does the vicar like to do jigsaw puzzles? If so, maybe she is hoping you'll regift the jigsaw puzzles to her so she could finish them, herself. :)
ReplyDeleteI like puzzles too, Jack. With help from a granddaughter we finished a 1000 piece one last week and now have started another. Good to hear you're doing well.
ReplyDeleteI'm impressed that you can do jigsaw puzzles. I used to love them in my younger days, but as I've gotten older I find I can hardly put two pieces together!
ReplyDeleteLovely to hear from Jack and his football colours are the same as our local team. Catriona
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