Together, Apart

Last week we went away to England for a week. In May we went away for a weekend, and during our absence, Spring flew into Finland and...

A while ago (quite a while ago now) we were joined by a friend who came to stay with us from Hamburg, and we all toddled down the road...

One of the greatest thanks I have for Past Penny, is that she bought tickets on a whim to Flow Festival once we found out we were moving...

It’s been a long time since I read The Outsider. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a French book (L’Étranger) by Albert Camus; popular...

Water, in the Australian summers of my memory, is as precious as gold. What I was willing to sacrifice for the feel of those tumultuous,...

I have only now realised that in our previous two abodes, we could not see sky from our windows. Sometimes we could see a rosy glow on...

The truth is, it’s been a hard couple of weeks, these past two. Through some misunderstanding or miscommunication, we came to Finland...

I once attended a workshop about making a positive contribution in the world. We were asked to think of a problem we would like to solve...

Recently we’ve enjoyed Restaurant Day (Ravintolapäivä), Cleaning Day (Siivouspäivä), and a bit before I arrived there was Sauna Day...

In my last post, I was all, like ‘blurgh, it’s really hard not to watch TV and bureaucracy gets me down’. But today, I’m all, like ‘I’m...