A postcard from Henry

In the week before Christmas Laura and her girl received a letter from Henry.

"Look, a letter!"

"A puzzle card - what fun, we need to make the puzzle to find the message."

"We're doing well with the borders"

"Last piece!"

"We have a picture of the Carisbrooke Castle donkey"

"Let's read the message on the other side"

Dear Laura, Peggy Sue and I had a lovely week on the Isle of Wight.  We got to see some amazing things.  This castle was such fun and we got to watch the donkey turning the wheel.  I bet you are looking forward to Christmas as are we!  We have got the smaller trees up which the girls have been decorating.  Love Henry ;-) xxx

This was the donkey with the wheel at Carisbrooke Castle

Laura was very pleased with the postcard - thank you Henry and Peggy Sue.

A postcard from Cornwall

It was summer, the roses were blooming in the garden despite bursts of heavy rain. One day Laura received a letter.

"Who can it be from?" she wondered

Inside the envelope was a postcard puzzle

Laura tipped the pieces onto the table and started doing the jigsaw puzzle

It was not too difficult to see that there were 4 pictures divided by white borders

Soon she had all the edges done and started working on the middle pieces

"Last piece" said Laura as she put it in place to complete the picture

It was four photos of a village called Boscastle in Cornwall

Laura carefully turned the puzzle over (yes, it can be done) and read the message on the back.  It was from her friend Henry.

"Dear Laura,
We are having a lovely time in Cornwall despite the weather not being the best!  We arrived for a day in Boscastle and it is now pouring down with rain so had to wait in the cafe for ages until it cleared - no real problem as we enjoyed lunch and a cream tea! We went for a walk and admired the wonderful views once it stopped raining it was rugged, wild and wonderful!  We did have a couple of days when the weather wasn't too bad and will blog about the places we visited.  Much love, Henry :-)  P.S. Hope you had fun doing this puzzle postcard."

"Thank you Henry, I did enjoy piecing this together and reading about your Cornish holiday" said Laura

Laura hasn't visited Boscastle but her girl has been there twice, when she was much younger as we had 2 caravan holidays at Tintagel. Boscastle was severely flooded in 2004 because of a severe cloudburst (it hit the national news).  In our visits to the village it was good to see all the repairs that were done and improvements to the flood defences so it was a relief to know that despite Henry's rainy visit the village wasn't flooded again.