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Christmas Holiday Doings
Thanks to the calendar I had a really long Christmas holiday with plenty of time to rest and do various more or less useful things: I read some books, mostly well worth reading: Jonathan Littell, H...
07.01.2014 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Mother's Health - a Hospital Chronicle
In 2009 I noticed Mother wasn't as sharp as she used to be, but it didn't seem alarming. In June 2012 the situation changed after Mother had been prescribed Losartan for her slight blood pressure: at ...
19.09.2013 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Old News
This year I've survived the dread plumbing, electricity and ventilation renovation. Here some photos from the experience: This was the starting point, my dear tub... Not in a great condition, but o...
09.08.2013 | Kommentteja 0 |
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March - Still Employed!
Yesterday was the big day when redundancies were announced to those concerned. I sat stiff with tension at my computer all day fearing I would be called to my boss for a discussion. I was almost certa...
01.03.2012 | Kommentteja 0 |
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A Move
I should have written this last spring, when my place of work relocated a block away, but then I had plenty of other things to do, as can be imagined. We have now less space than we used to, and most...
30.08.2011 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Wins, wins not...
The TV watchers' super weekend is over. Paradise Oskar didn't win the Eurovision Song Contest, which surprised and disappointed some. A cute boy with a nice song, but so what? I was more surprised th...
16.05.2011 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Suddenly, in the Theatre
My mother had expressed interest in seeing the musical Queen of the Gypsies in Lahti City Theatre. Last Friday I checked the availability of tickets, realized I had better act quickly, and bought tick...
20.09.2010 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Moonlight Swim
Yesterday it was rainy and cloudy, and I wondered whether to go to the Töölö Bay Moonlight Swim event as planned, but in the evening it got brighter, and I really felt like going. It was the 12th ...
25.08.2010 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Ballet at Spring
Yesterday was a ballet night. Beneath the Dancing Sky included Cornered by Niccolo Fonte, workwithinwork by William Forsythe, and Minus 7 by Ohad Naharin. In Cornered I kept watching interesting shado...
18.05.2010 | Kommentteja 0 |
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From Panic to Picnic
Last Saturday evening, Mayday, I was happily lying in my bath tub in Helsinki when the phone rang. It was my mother, "dying," and insisting I come to Lahti. She sounded really bad - although not dying...
03.05.2010 | Kommentteja 0 |
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An AI Dream
It hasn't been my habit to write down my dreams here, nor tell them, in general, but I thought I might make an exception this time. *** The memory of the dream has already faded, but there was this en...
17.12.2009 | Kommentteja 0 |
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A Sunday Well Spent
Well, actually it started on Saturday. At breakfast table I realized I wanted to wash my rag rugs. I even had an old piece of pine soap, enough for two rugs, I thought. I rolled up two dirtiest ru...
19.07.2009 | Kommentteja 0 |
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July Market Photos
The first Wednesday of a month has been the market day in Lahti for more than a hundred years. Holiday makers enliven the July event - weather permitting. Selling and buying Viip...
01.07.2009 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Confessions of A Yo-Yo Dieter
Like many women, I've been on a diet most of my life. My main problem are the times spent at my mother's in Lahti, and the bisquits, buns and bread I eat there to stay calm and content. And so, at ho...
12.06.2009 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Mother's Family
I have lived in a matrilocal, maybe even a matriarchal family. During my first years I lived in my grandparents' house, and I spent my days with grandmother, listening to her family stories. Thus I le...
10.05.2009 | Kommentteja 0 |
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