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| Kallion kirkko yesterday |
It's a bit strange writing about summer (see
lost posts - like you can miss them) when even in Kallio it is like being in a snow globe recently.
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| Life in the freezer |
We braved the weather yesterday (another 10-15cm) to
wade to the YLE / Euroradio Christmas concert in Kallio kirkko - while my Mum listened to it live on BBC Radio 3 in UK while the snow fell outside her window. It's a small (snowy) world.
Back home with visitors for
glöggiä ja joulutorttuja we looked out the window and tutted at the multi-coloured disco lights on the neighbouring '
talo' (apartment block) tree in their yard (don't they know that everyone in Finland has monochromatic, usually white, lights?).
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| Our 'house' tree |
We ourselves have two trees (courtesy of Dorma, Inlook, Kone, Pilkington, Rakla ja Sapa Building Systems) from the annual architect's
joululounas (christmas lunch) at Finlandia talo. As you can imagine with a free lunch and a tree each on offer, it is somewhat popular, even if you have to do a pop quiz on all the reps new products to actually get fed. And that's after getting a ticket (involving booking via internet at 9am on the dot, a bit like Glastonbury it sells out in an hour!). Before anyone asks - we gave one of the trees away (to Hiiri) which involved me carrying it on the Metro to Mellunmäki...
We were also a bit surprised to see that some
joulutonttu had been up on the garage roof in our 'house'
piha (yard) to somehow attach a tree there for us all to gaze down on (well those flats that face the yard anyway)... especially as they had to dig a path across the roof to get there.
Talking of
tonttuja (elves), I have a bad feeling that something is coming back other than
joulupukki...
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