That used to be a line in a Finnish children’s program in the 70’s, the kids watching tv were taught English with a show where two English policemen were looking for a missing cat. The answer is of course ’The cat is in the moon.’ (Later the other policeman became a writer for several Finnish tv comedy shows and he is very much liked, his son was my client in my previous library.)
Ok so I just thought to give a sign of life. Yes, I’m still here and kicking but I’ve been kind of busy with work and everything. Last week an old Finnish blog pal emerged and gave me a spark to start writing my Finnish blog again but also this one.
I spent about all of summer at the cottage and also every second (at least) weekend has been a cottage weekend for us. Next week I’m having my fall leave as is youngest one and Hubby said he’d be working from home so we’re going to the cottage on Wednesday because it needs to be made ready for winter hibernation. We’re also going there to see if we’ve finally gotten the water meter installed. We had only lake water for washing and drinking water had to brought from home or shop since the old well wasn’t reliable and so we decided to have water line drawn to the plot. It happened in September so we now have water on the plot but the meter is still on it’s way. Luckily we’ve been able to take water from the line already but it still need to be warmed up on stove for dish washing or in the huge cauldron in sauna if we warm sauna up.
I’ve enjoyed the cottage life. My soul relaxes in the quietness and nature. I also swam in the lake every day (when in cottage) until October. In summer Sirius the Cat used to come and sit on the pier when I was swimming and she’d look at me like I had lost all of my marbles finally. She also liked the cottage life and visited all neighbours, even the one with two dogs who were a bit miffed of her.
Anyways nothing major happening here. The work is also what it’s always been, just a bit busier since after the pandemic we have now returned back to the normal scale of things. The new cabinet of ministers is worrying with its politics so we shall see if there’s going to be strikes.
Eldest son is graduating to become a programmer and they won a game-coding contest with his friends and went to Riyadh to collect the prize in August. We asked him what he’d like to have as an graduation present and he said that since him and 15 friends are going to Tokio, Japan for the month of December we could buy him the plane tickets which we did.
Middlest son is still studying in Central Finland and now his girlfriend moved in with him as she got postgraduate study place in the same city. Youngest one is on the 2nd year in high school and he loves history and social studies.
Here’s the program Hello Hello hello’s 1st ep for you. The first part is a bit slow with the vocabulary but the real thing starts around 5’20. Everybody was hooked watching this, both kiddies and adults.
Nokisuu 