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,…
Meri, Meri, quite contreri
Author: Meri
I moved to the UK this month in 2010, and I will move back to Finland in about a month’s time, making it a pretty round 13 years abroad. Or…
My older son lets his imagination loose at bedtime and often calls us back in to tell us what he has seen or heard in the dark. Once he said…
One of the unintended consequences of a heatwave is that afterwards your house has several new occupants. Ours is crawling with flies, moths and spiders that came in through doors…
I’ve not been feeling in brilliant health lately. Truthfully, I feel old – exercise is taxing, I get out of breath, I always feel tired and maintaining a non-slouching posture…
I’ve taken the boys to the ancestral lands for a week. Finland is as ever – green, quiet, everything sparsely. This time my eye has been drawn to graffiti and…
The potentially exaggerated news of Evernote’s demise caused me to install Notion, and I’ve been trialling it in August. I started out a bit sceptical – I didn’t like the…
My older son’s closest friends from nursery are all going to school in September, bar one. At the same time his very best friend’s family are moving to Canada, so…
My new strategy of abandoning books that aren’t doing it for me is having the desired effect – reading more. I’m still reading at a pace that would have shocked…
I’ve had a bit of a bittersweet realisation over the summer with the difficulty in finding a house to buy. I think London and I have grown apart. There are…