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Office Christmas Parties: Some Better, Some Worse
My very first office Christmas party was in 1987, and since then I have attended them fairly regularly, if I've had a job. The next one was at General Staff College, which I remember for having refuse...
01.12.2006 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Late Autumn Gardening
First snow fell in Lahti last October when there were still leaves on trees and it stayed on the ground for several weeks. A storm had felled a large branch from an old apple tree on a garden table an...
27.11.2006 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Life and Death in Kallio
Kallio used to be a working class neighbourhood with small flats, one room housing a family with children, and sometimes even a lodger. Families are long since gone. Now most of the inhabitants are st...
10.11.2006 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Herring Market
The 264th Helsinki Herring Market was opened yesterday, the first Sunday of October, and I did my share of traditional shopping today: Baltic herring in sherry and spicy tomato marinade, a jar of buck...
02.10.2006 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Autumn
The autumn calm has settled in. No sound or movement can penetrate the quiet. I'd call it dead calm if there weren't this atmosphere of expectancy. Neither is it a calm before a storm, but a waiting f...
18.09.2006 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Net Auction Experiences
Late last July I registered at the Finnish net auction site Huuto.net in order to get rid of superfluous books taking up precious shelf space; last time I tried selling books to a second-hand shop the...
15.09.2006 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Expedition Åland
The National Museum of Finland made a three-day excursion to the subarctic archipelago of Åland last week, paid for by the Maija Syrjänen Fund. Our mission was to survive five museums, five churches, ...
04.09.2006 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Sparrows' Sunday Brunch
Café Ursula is popular also among sparrows. Yesterday several avian customers queued on a canopy cable waiting to be served. Some were happy with crumbs, but four of them wanted something more substa...
21.08.2006 | Kommentteja 0 |
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The Tina Lindquist Scenario
I have sometimes thought that I was meant to be my aunt's daughter instead of my mother's, because we have more in common with each other. This is what I call "Tina Lindquist Scenario". But as my aunt...
17.08.2006 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Beach Life
Yesterday I went to swim at Mustikkamaa beach, strangely enough, for the first time in my life. Naturally I have been there before, but for some reason only late in the autumn, walking on the shore. I...
07.08.2006 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Hade, Sabi, and Me
For some incomprehensible reason I started thinking about the Nikkô shrine last night. I have never been there and know it only from photographs, but it has become for me a symbol of supreme tasteless...
04.08.2006 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Online Dating
I got into online dating last summer when, out of curiosity, I followed the example of an acquaintance. Since then I have changed services twice. I make searches, occasionally write messages in guest ...
10.06.2006 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Jeans
Jeans have in been fashion again for the last few years, can't see why. I've had two pairs of blue jeans in my life. My mother tells me that I had a pair of green jeans as child, but I can't remember ...
02.06.2006 | Kommentteja 0 |
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A Sunday Walk
This morning I went for my almost traditional walk along the shores, and had my first tea at the terrace of Café Ursula this year. Surprisingly the terrace is open also during winter - they even have ...
14.05.2006 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Spring
The first coffee break on the terrace this afternoon. A white wagtail walks by, wagging it's tail. The first wagtail of this year I saw before Easter. It was standing in the middle of a bare spot in a...
04.05.2006 | Kommentteja 0 |
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