Trying not to watch Netflix
When life gets really hectic for me, the ideas about what I’d do with a little free time just flood on in. When I was wrapping things up...
Lessons from the sports bar
Going to a sports bar. A thing I would avoid at all costs in Australia (I think mostly for snobby reasons). A thing I have done with 100%...
For everything there is a season
And right now, Helsinki is turn, turn, turning insanely green. Look at it! Meanwhile, our home is becoming a bit Finnish. In part this is...
Tromping around with my ignorance and my camera
I haven’t been sure how to blog about our trip to Estonia. I just wrote an email to a friend and asked: Have you ever visited somewhere...
What do you do? What are you? Who are you?
Last night I met an Australian living in Helsinki. She said ‘are you a scientist?’ I said ‘I don’t know what I am’ She said ‘sounds like...
Feeling hot, hot, hot!
So my face is sunburnt. Last week I could not have believed that this would be possible, but it’s hooooot here. It’s reaching up to 15...
On expectations and beating them into sub... I mean, managing them
I told myself I wouldn’t. I told Nick. I even wrote it down. I said to myself ‘I won’t expect too much of myself in my first month’. But...
One week in Helsinki
One week in Finland babyyyy! (Said in the voice of Luke McGregor from Luke Warm Sex with accompanying sound clip). Here are some of my...
The smallest thing
After my first day touring Helsinki, I tried to focus on achieving a few necessary tasks. Luckily my jet lag means that I’m up bright and...
Sky high
Packing up and saying goodbye and losing, and chucking and parting came to an end when I got on the plane and looked ahead to my reunion...