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With the arrival of real winter temperatures and the approach of the shortest day of the year, I thought that today I would offer a few ideas for keeping ourselves amused during the long winter months of isolation ahead.

Those still hoping to buy jigsaw puzzles as Christmas gifts may be out of luck - apparently they are amongst the most popular purchases this year. But if you have access to a computer and internet service, you can still enter the exciting world of puzzledom and with all the possibilities out there, you're sure to find something to your taste. Here's a page of puzzles with an emphasis on libraries:

https://librarianship.ca/features/jigsaw-puzzles/

And if none of those appeal to you, you can also take an image from your own files and convert it to a jigsaw puzzle.

Like many of us, I've been going through a fair amount of reading material, especially murder mysteries, during the pandemic. But I do miss the kinds of book events I would be attending under normal circumstances. Author signings, readings, conferences and so on. The Crime Readers Association in the U.K. has a page that allows you to indulge your passion for crime without actually committing a crime of passion, or any other kind of crime for that matter:

https://thecra.co.uk/murder-game-ideas-difficult-times/

Then there's the Midsomer Murders plot generator:

https://midsomerplots.net/#1607754879

And that's just a small sampling of all the puzzling resources out there!