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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 | Magpie's Feather

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  Too Cunning?

  The Cunning Little Vixen by Leoš Janáček was so cunning that it slipped me completely: I got laryngitis and had to stay home - I'm still croaking, but the cough seems to be gone. I gave my ticket to a...

  03.02.2015 | Kommentteja 0 | Magpie's Feather

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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 | Magpie's Feather

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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 | Magpie's Feather

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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 | Magpie's Feather

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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 | Magpie's Feather

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  Body Building with Exercise Bike

  Last January I bought from Hobby Hall a Raleigh X-Bike to help me control my weight by aerobic exercise. With time I got used to sitting and pedalling, and not dying of boredom - watching Heartbeat an...

  19.12.2008 | Kommentteja 0 | Magpie's Feather

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  Alarm

  I had quite a shock when my mother lost her consciousness in the sauna. She has a flu and has been tired, listless and off food for a few days. I wondered if it was wise for her to go to the sauna, bu...

  15.04.2006 | Kommentteja 0 | Magpie's Feather

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