Official update on our #SpeedPuzzling shenanigans:

We came nowhere near last! Shocked ourselves with 1 hour 10 minutes!

At one point I ended up in the loos with two well-known puzzletubers, and I also got recognised from YT as well (hi Chloe if you ever see this toot!).

Everyone was very friendly and my puzzle piece earrings were complimented by a stranger literally about ten seconds after we walked in the venue.

Ours was the bottom one in this pic, teapots was the solo puzzle, and the other one is just one I fancied as a souvenir because why not.

Great day!

#JigsawPuzzles #UKNationals

What started as a joke has somehow turned into me competing in the pairs division of the UK Jigsaw Puzzle National Championship tomorrow!

Surprisingly unbothered by nerves, although I do hope we can avoid coming dead last. Anything else will be considered a great success.

I made a video all about training so far, so if you like endless timelapses of people being bad at puzzles you can see that at @michellemay (or on my YT).

But the actual event itself will be livestreamed at https://www.youtube.com/@UKJPA/streams from 11:45am UK time, so maybe you'll be able to spot me in the background somewhere.

Wish us luck!

(Bonus pic of a very un-speedy puzzle I did this week, it smells vaguely of peppermint and makes me want to go back to Iceland)

#JigsawPuzzle #SpeedPuzzling #UKNationals