The summer puzzle

Lynda Hallinan is pondering the rhythms of life after a long, lazy summer.

Only in summer does she find time to ‘waste’ playing 500 with her parents or last card with her children. Only in summer does she ‘kill’ hours methodically assembling jigsaw puzzles, piece by piece, only to pull them apart and put them back into their boxes as soon as they’re completed.

It’s an exercise in both futility and mindfulness, as satisfying as it is pointless, but this year she thinks she’s found the answer to at least one problem: glue.

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