I know I started on this jigsaw puzzle once before, and gave up before I finished it. It’s a based on one of Van Gogh’s paintings of sunflowers, and there is an awful lot of yellow. I love sunflowers and I love the colours of this painting but it is rather challenging.

You might think that jigsaw puzzles, being very much an indoor activity, are best kept for long winter evenings. But I’ve realized that the subtle differences in all the yellows of this puzzle are even harder to distinguish in lamplight, so I only work on it during daytime hours. If my last attempt was in wintertime, I can understand why I’d give up. Now it remains to be seen whether I can get far enough before the days get too short.