It Should Have Been A Crowning Achievement,

but success slipped away,

it was to have featured in the Guinness Book of Records and luckily jigsaw maker Dave Evens had already measured and photographed the giant jigsaw puzzle and sent the information off to the Guinness World Records before it broke up, the jigsaw was a montage of photos of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee,

it was being built on a sloping board, but disaster struck as it slowly but surely slid from the board that he was building it on, to create the 40,000 piece jigsaw he spent over 200 hours cutting the jigsaw from wood,

but just a day after putting the final segment in place, his 6m (19ft 6in) by 2.5m (8ft) jigsaw suddenly crumpled to the floor, breaking into thousands of pieces, Dave served as an apprentice jigsaw maker for the renowned Victory Puzzles and has cut thousands of jigsaws during his career,


the puzzle is due to be displayed in the Queen’s Ball Room at Sandringham alongside 100,000 cards she received for her Jubilee until November, after that the puzzle will be auctioned off and the money will go towards the Help For Heroes charity, so Dave is asking if any volunteers are willing to help him complete the puzzle in time, so if you want to help to put Humpty Dumpty back together again now is your chance,


by the way in case you're thinking that Humpty Dumpty was an egg you would be incorrect Humpty Dumpty was not in fact a person but a cannon, used in the English Civil War, a quote from the article,


'a shot from a Parliamentary cannon succeeded in damaging the wall beneath Humpty Dumpty which caused the cannon to tumble to the ground, the Royalists, or Cavaliers, 'all the King's men' attempted to raise Humpty Dumpty on to another part of the wall, however, because the cannon , or Humpty Dumpty, was so heavy ' all the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put Humpty together again!'


hopefully Dave and his army of volunteers will have more luck with the jigsaw puzzle.