November 12, 2019
The Land of Far Beyond
It’s been a stressful couple of days. The perfect time to get lost in something uplifting. This is the completed jigsaw puzzle of an unknown locale.
https://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=33a636422b4c&pieces=24
As soon as the last piece went in, I knew it was how I’d imagined some of the vistas in a childhood favourite called ‘The Land of Far Beyond.’
Enjoy. 🙂
Meeks
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November 15th, 2019 at 1:21 pm
This reminds me of hiking shows I like watching sometimes to relax on weekends. It’s really dorky, but I found this show on Amazon Prime – https://www.walksaroundbritain.co.uk/
In case you wanna watch some similars vistas 🙂
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November 15th, 2019 at 3:29 pm
OMG! I just watched this short one:
https://www.walksaroundbritain.co.uk/lanercostpriory.html
And there’s a gate that’s so similar to the one in the puzzle! Not dorky at all. So very different to Australia though. I don’t think we ever get such a vivid green. It’s almost always shades of olive/grey/blue.
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November 16th, 2019 at 1:44 pm
Such a great continent 😆. l’ve never been, but love consuming media on Australian wildlife and geology.
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November 17th, 2019 at 8:14 am
Australia is different. When we’re good, we’re very very good. When we’re bad we don’t do that by halves either. I fear we, and the Pacific Rim nations [including California] are going to bear the brunt of early climate change. Come while there’s still something to see.
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November 15th, 2019 at 10:53 am
There is always light at the end of darkness ❤❤
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November 15th, 2019 at 3:32 pm
I agree, but we have to be prepared to see it. 🙂
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November 14th, 2019 at 12:49 pm
I’ve always been fond of open gates and paths heading out into the distance. You never know what you’ll find. 🙂
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November 15th, 2019 at 10:18 am
Me too! It feels as if anything is possible.
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November 14th, 2019 at 5:23 am
Sorry to hear about the stress, Andrea. Beautiful puzzle too. I love jigsaw puzzles. I think I might lock myself away for a week in December and make a puzzle. A wonderful stress reliever.
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November 14th, 2019 at 8:21 am
What a great idea. Sometimes changing from one creative pursuit [words] to another [images] is more restful than a holiday on a beach. Okay, that may be a bit of an exaggeration but… 😀
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November 14th, 2019 at 9:44 am
I’ll need a de-stressing by then.
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November 14th, 2019 at 12:26 am
Looks like a great puzzle. We did them when I was growing up—my mom was a fanatic. We’d use the dining room table for these massive, complicated puzzles. It was great fun. Enjoy your new obsession.
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November 14th, 2019 at 8:25 am
lol – thanks, Candy. One of the nice things about these online puzzles is that no dining rooms were sacrificed in their making. 😀
Did you two ever try the 3D jigsaw puzzles that were the rage for a while?
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November 13th, 2019 at 11:16 pm
Congrats on completing the beautiful jigsaw puzzle. Why are they called “JIGSAW”? I’ve always wondered. BTW, sometimes I think I LIVE in the Land of Far Beyond…. Those are on good days.
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November 14th, 2019 at 8:31 am
Aaah! I can answer that, I think. 😀 There are special saws, usually with very thin blades, that can be used to cut out intricate patterns, esp. from thin plywood. I have a couple that I used when I was making dollshouses. My guess is that these ‘jig saws’ were used to cut out the puzzle shapes. And the name stuck.
I think I live in the land of far beyond too, at least in winter. In summer, not so much. 😀
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November 14th, 2019 at 10:50 pm
Aha! Thanks for the explanation – makes saw-sense! 🙂 To living in the ‘land of far beyond’ at least in our imaginations.
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November 15th, 2019 at 10:17 am
-grin- Indeed. 😀
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November 12th, 2019 at 11:16 pm
Wow, a virtual jigsaw! I haven’t come across this before. I don’t think I’d be able to do it – jigsaws are hard enough when you’ve got all the pieces in front of you.
I only recently heard about The Land of Far Beyond. It’s on my TBR list.
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November 13th, 2019 at 8:05 am
If you like jigsaw puzzles, don’t be put off. You can choose the number of pieces you play with – 24 – 300 or something. For me, puzzles are a quick treat when I have a few minutes to spare, so I usually play at 24 and just see how fast I can go. 🙂
Enid Blyton wrote The Land of Far Beyond as a children’s version of The Pilgrim’s Progress. I loved it as a child and I still do.
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November 13th, 2019 at 9:49 pm
I haven’t done a jigsaw since I was a child – I haven’t got the patience! I do have a happy childhood memory of a circular jigsaw I got for my 10th birthday. It was a picture of a forest at twilight, and it had bats in it.
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November 13th, 2019 at 10:34 pm
lol – it’s never too late! Give jigsaw planet a try. If you enjoy solving puzzles you may also like to create your own. For that you have to sign up. After that you can take a photo you own and literally turn it into a jigsaw puzzle. Lots of fun. 🙂
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November 15th, 2019 at 12:32 am
Enid Blyton was prolific ; 50 books a year 600 million sold incredible .
In our day of political correctness and anxiousness to hunt down any non- conformity she is frowned upon.
In The Land of Far Beyond Dame slap who used corporal punishment is changed to Dame Snap , and Dick and Fanny become Rick and Frannie. What a crazy world!
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November 15th, 2019 at 10:17 am
lol – yeah. I understand about unconscious bias, but I genuinely believe she wasn’t being ‘bad’. Her writing was simply reflective of the times.
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November 12th, 2019 at 9:22 pm
How beautiful! And difficult lol …
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November 13th, 2019 at 8:07 am
-grin- No! It can be as difficult as you wish! I go for speed these days so mostly play at just 24 pieces.
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