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Car!
I've bought a car! A Renault 19 Hatchback, 1993 model with 92 000 km, for 2000 €. In a way I've surprised myself, although I had planned this since spring. In June I noticed a colleague had put up her...
17.08.2007 | Kommentteja 0 |
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The Four Seasons of Töölö Bay: Photos
My way to work often takes me by the Töölö Bay giving me an opportunity to enjoy the changing weather and light, the progress of seasons, and the life of birds and animals. Spring Summer Autu...
01.08.2007 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Summer Reading
I spent most of my summer holiday reading in the garden by the squirrels' two-tiered highway with a young hare hiding behind a peony. Find the hare! I usually get myself somethin...
13.07.2007 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Rowans of Helsinki
There are lots of rowans, mostly European Mountain Ash (Sorbus aucuparia) and Swedish Mountain Ash (S. intermedia), growing in Helsinki these days. A few years ago rowans were planted in Vaasankatu to...
05.06.2007 | Kommentteja 0 |
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The Cat
The Cat, or The Critter, was actually named Murri, although we rarely used that. He was born with three siblings on the 25th of May in 1965, on the top shelf in a closet at a friend's home. I was pres...
25.05.2007 | Kommentteja 0 |
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False Starts at Driving School
Having seen the advertisement for Driving School Lilliputti last August I signed for Ladies' Course, in order to avoid 17-year old boys with an attitude. The first lesson in November, at Malmi swimmin...
18.05.2007 | Kommentteja 0 |
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ESC Fever: Start to Finish
I've always thought that I don't catch public moods. This is the story of my fall. On my way home past Narinkkatori on Thursday the 3rd of May I saw that the building of Eurovision Village had star...
14.05.2007 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Birds
The spring is a month early this year. Last Sunday I bought my first icecream stick from the Helsingin Jäätelötehdas stand that had just been erected on Kaivopuisto shore. The boat bridge to Uunisaari...
19.04.2007 | Kommentteja 0 |
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A Drifter's CV - Short Version
I never wanted position or money. I used to believe that by studying interesting things one would get interesting work - what a hoot. My main alternatives were research and art. I was afraid of failin...
05.02.2007 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Online Dating: The Matti and Susan Saga
Even Prime Minister Vanhanen has sought company in Suomi24 Treffit, although the result wasn't very good advertisement for online dating. About a year ago, it seems, he found a certain Susan Kuronen,...
30.01.2007 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Homes and Quarters
I spent my first years upstairs in my grandparents' semi-detached house in Lahti, after which I lived with my parents in a house of our own for almost a year. There were lots of children of my age liv...
16.01.2007 | Kommentteja 0 |
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From Christmas to New Year
Christmas passed again quietly. We, my mother and I, had a tiny plastic Christmas tree, I had bought a present for each of us, and most of the traditional foods, bought ready-made, got eaten in the co...
03.01.2007 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Santa Claus v. Joulupukki
In the 1960s Niilo Tarvajärvi, a Finnish radio and TV entertainer, hit on the idea of creating Joulupukinmaa in Lapland, calling it Santa Claus Land in English. Now after many difficulties, Christmas ...
24.12.2006 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Too Close
I saw with misgivings last spring that the opera season ticket this autumn included Eugene Onegin. I even considered selling the ticket, but then I thought it couldn't be that bad at this late stage. ...
14.12.2006 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Father and his Family
I have very little knowledge of my father's family. I didn't even know his parents' first names until I was grown. His father was a stonemason who built cowhouses. He died in the 1930s. His mother die...
07.12.2006 | Kommentteja 0 |
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