I am also thinking of my American cousins today as the New President is sworn in.  Let us all look forward to much peace and harmony.

Hernibs, your comment about a missing piece from a jigsaw - I particularly like Gibson's Thomas Kinkade ones, when purchased new, inside the box is a slip say if a fault is found to return something like 5 pieces to them and they will replace.  Well a few years ago I had a beautiful summery jigsaw given to me for Christmas, made a nice change from the snowy scenes I had been doing.  Well apart from noticing just how jagged some of the pieces were, or had not been cut through properly I also had numerous pieces where there was just paper without the card.  Needless to say I got in touch with Gibson's and they were brilliant, they replaced the whole puzzle and also explained that whilst checks are made on the machinery that does the cutting, sometimes what happened to mine does happen.  Apparently the jigsaw picture when glued on to the card and Gibsons do use a decent thickness of card, this is then fed through the machinery to cut the card into its shapes and then continues on its conveyor belt to the next stage where it is blown into a bag and sealed.  Whilst what happened to mine is rather unusual and rare it does happen, and only by  us letting them know that something is wrong then they can run some checks and also put it right.  I must admit I suppose I have about 30-40 Thomas Kinkade puzzles - just love the colouring and I do keep them, as I will look forward to doing them again in the future.  I have already completed three of these since Boxing day, and have another four waiting in the wings!