Completed 21st July 2025

  

1008 Pieces (-1)

 The Coronation - by Eleanor Tomlinson (UK, Illustrationist)

Ravensburger, 2023

 

Just check that the artist chose a so-called Cavalier King Charles Spaniel 

to depict King Charles III 😁 

 

 

23rd Megamarathon - 5th > 7th January 2024

 Oh yes, it was megamarathon again!

67 participants (including me) from our german jgsaw puzzle forum managed to assemble more than 340k pieces. This is an all-time record! At the end I counted 5.919 pieces.

Here we go!

 On the first day I started assembling many small wooden jigsaw puzzles  

 140 Pieces

Portrait of  King Charles III - artist: Alastair Barford

 

 top left: Spivy Point, Dominic Davison

top right: Florence Bridge, Dominic Davison

below, left: Floors Castle (Aerial View from the River Tweed)

below, right: Venice at dusk, Dominic Davison

 

Sunflowers, Provence

Clive Madgwick

 

top: Skiing - Margaret Loxton

 middle:Forêt tropicale avec singes, 1910 - Herni Rousseau

below:Paris Streets, Dominic Davison

 

top: Snowflakes - Royce B. McClure

middle: Congratulations! - litraton.de

below: the most successful theatre in modern times = football / soccer

 

top: Sky Roads - Royce B. McClure

middle: Aber bitte mit Sahne - Jürgen Gildemeister - litraton.de

Mediterranean Morning - Dominic Davison

 

 

Top: the first and the fastest (2015) - Branth Chemicals, Hamburg

middle: partnerlook from Sylt - Klaro 19 5i - puzzlespezialisten.de

below: Le Pont Japonais - Claude Monet - Christie's Images, 1999

 

Giant's Causeway, Country Antrim - Peter Greenway, National Trust

 

 

Castle Schwerin - S. Andert - puzzlespezialisten.de

 

Afterwards

 

 

 

 

The Coronation of King Charles III * 6th May 2023

 Screenshots taken from the lifestream by the BBC (I don't own any rights)

Requiescat in pace - will be updated constantly ... (17.9.2022)

  

21.4.1926 (Mayfair, London) - 8.9.2022 (Balmoral, Scotland)

royal.uk

 

Two weeks of mourning follow the Queen's death. I took several screenshots from various TV broadcasts to fill my blog entry.

On the 9th of September King Charles III gave his first speech on TV

On the 11th Sept., the coffin with The Queen's remains has been taken on a journey from Balmoral castle to Edinburg, accompagnied by her daughter, the Princess Royal Anne.

The late Queens' coffin rested overnight at Holyrood House

On the 12th Sept., King Charles III - along with his brothers and sister - led the procession as The Queen's coffin has been taken from Holyrood House to St. Giles' Cathedral

King Charles III - Princess Royal Anne - Prince Andrew without any military signs - Prince Edward guide The Queen's journey through Edinburgh

Outstanding strength, resposibility and honour to carry The Queen's coffin into St. Giles' Cathedral.

Thousands of mourners took the chance to say good bye to The Queen 

 

The Vigil of the Princes - first time ever attended by the Princess Royal Anne

The Queen leaves Scotland for the final journey. 5.5 Millions tracked the flight on a flightradar

 

The Queen arrives in London

The Princess Royal Anne

The coffin has been made 30 years ago - it is made of english oak including a second coffin of lead. It is said the The Queen has been embalmed.

Her last night at Buckingham Palace

 

From Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall to the 5-day Lying-in-state