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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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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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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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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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Election and Marriage
Who'd have guessed that I would ever vote in a parish election, I who have defined myself as non-Christian since age thirteen? But now it has happened; an unexpected consequence of a TV programme I di...
02.11.2010 | 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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Dance Course
This March a dance course was organixed as a part of our 'well-being at work' activities. I decided to take advantage of the opportunity as I had for quite some time planned go to a dance course but h...
09.04.2009 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Per Aspera ad Astra... in a car
What a mess... It started off well enough August last year. I was nervous, but I drove my new car home from work without incident. The next practice drive wasn't too bad either. But then early one Su...
21.08.2008 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Minna Canth Day
Yesterday was the first official flag-raising day for a woman in Finland, the author Minna Canth (1844-97), an obvious nominee because of her social activism. There have been better writers, but she i...
20.03.2007 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Voting in Elections
The results of the parliamentary election of 2007 were quite astonishing, in spite, or because (?), of the uninspired campaign and widespread indifference. In Finland it doesn't much matter who sits...
19.03.2007 | 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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