The best festival (hopefully)
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...
That flaming sun!
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...
So much water
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,...
Oh dear, hear me (try to) speak Finnish
A friend requested that I start vlogging, but it just feels like a bit too much of a step up right now. so instead I’ll go half way and...
Where might Finnish lead?
English 'began life as a hard-nosed Germanic dialect, was overrun by French-speaking Normans, had a thing for Latin and Greek borrowings,...
Rear Window
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...
Wobbly riding on my Finnish bike
The truth is, it’s been a hard couple of weeks, these past two. Through some misunderstanding or miscommunication, we came to Finland...
E.T. phone home
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...
We've created a monster!
Recently we’ve enjoyed Restaurant Day (Ravintolapäivä), Cleaning Day (Siivouspäivä), and a bit before I arrived there was Sauna Day...
Tides, they turn
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...