I’ve been thinking about the Finnish culture of coping. Is it a thing? It feels like something that defines a whole national characteristic, but whenever I think of something like…
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Another cliché I’ve been contemplating lately, apart from ‘the past is a foreign country’, is ‘wherever you go, there you are’. Mainly in the context that our children make life…
My older son has always been fond of disaster scenarios, and if anything, this has increased since the move to Finland. Perhaps he sensed something we didn’t know about how…
The past is a foreign country, they say, but in my case the past is also my own country, which means that my own country is a foreign country. And…
We are still in lovely Northamptonshire. It’s starting to feel like we did move – and now we live here. A confused friend even sent me a text saying, ‘How…
We’re going to be homeless until November, so we’re cooped up at my parents-in-law’s house in Northamptonshire while our things make their way to Finland by train, then lorry, then…
The approaching move is bringing out two less-than-ideal behavioural traits in me. At the best of times I’m quite results- and action-oriented, and if I know there’s something that needs…
My list of worries about Finland had both dwindled and grown. We’ve put some more of the big rocks in place – movers are now booked and we have an…
Moving house is one of those times in life where you end up having the same conversation millions of times. It goes like this: This is the trunk conversation and…
A partial list of the things I’m low- to medium-grade worried about with the Finland move: Only one major piece of the puzzle is yet to be slotted into place,…