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What I did this Summer, and What I didn't
It's been a while.Last spring was spent with my mother's estate inventory. In principle a simple matter, but something new kept turning up all the time. Finally the lawyer was able to send it to the t...
13.08.2019 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Now Alone
Mother died a month ago. The funeral was last Friday. There were more guests than I had expected, but still no crowd. The minister had even met mother in her nursing home. He was young and nice, but p...
13.12.2018 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Presidential Funeral
Yesterday was the state funeral of president Mauno Koivisto. I thought I should go to see the procession, as I had followed the funeral procession ot his predecessor. Last time I had waited by the Pre...
26.05.2017 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Summer Holiday 2016
I've been taking it easy at work since Monday this week. I had a very busy holiday with household chores, gardening, arranging Mother's things, and general organising. If there had been a couple of su...
21.07.2016 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Mother, Again
Mother has now been in hospital for more than three months, but she will come home at last on Friday. In July she was home for a three day trial, but on the last day she insisted that she wanted to go...
05.08.2015 | Kommentteja 0 |
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July Market 2015
The Lahti Market is back in its original place, now with a car park beneath it. The opening festivities were held in April. On an average weekday or even a Saturday it is more than half empty, but tod...
01.07.2015 | Kommentteja 0 |
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End of Season
It's May, and my last ballet of the season, A Midsummer Night's Dream by Jorma Elo, was yesterday. Music by Mendelssohn, of course. The choreography was first performed in Vienna in 2010.It is always ...
07.05.2015 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Celebration of Sorts
Yesterday was Chinese new year, and the "Terracotta Army" by the Monument to the memory of President J.K. Paasikivi (a.k.a. East and West by Harri Kivijärvi) must grace numeous blogs and social media...
19.02.2015 | Kommentteja 0 |
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An End
Going to buy groceries I saw from afar a group of magpies. As I approached they flew away, but I saw what had attracted them. November ends as befits it Finnish name, Dead Month....
30.11.2014 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Extreme November
November started agreeably enough with a holiday. We even had first snow in Lahti, and I got much done: On Tuesday I finished raking leaves; on Thursday it started snowing, and I could do some snow...
27.11.2014 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Stolen!
I noticed only yesterday that my one and only family heirloom has been stolen. It is an old ring that my grandmother's uncle gave her as a sign of reconciliation in the 1950s. In the 1980s she gave it...
12.08.2014 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Belated Holiday News
I've been at work almost two weeks already. I didn't have as good a holiday weather as those who started two weeks later - it actually is too hot and humid for my taste now - but I had plenty to do: s...
01.08.2014 | Kommentteja 0 |
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A Change of Computers
A few weeks ago my 9 year old Fujitsu Siemens Amilo laptop went and died. Last Monday I was finally able to fetch my new HP Pavilion from the post office. Fortunately the old one had displayed worriso...
03.04.2014 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Vaasankatu Revisited
Much has changed on Vaasankatu since I wrote about it in November 2006. I still walk through it daily, but last summer I felt the atmosphere had changed. I had noticed the incipient 'hipsterification'...
21.02.2014 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Exercise
Last March just the night before moving to temporary lodgings my exercise bike broke. It probably could have been fixed, but under the circumstances I dumped it. I thought I'd buy a rowing machine whe...
24.01.2014 | Kommentteja 0 |
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