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Full points for adorability: Finnish swimmer Ari-Pekka Liukkonen showed the athletes accommodations in the Olympic village in London. He was quite impressed that he had been provided with an extra long bed to rest his 208 cm/6'10 frame in (without him having had to ask for it). The problem? He's never had a long enough bed in his life so he couldn' ( Read more... ) -
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Last Thursday, on India's Republic Day, the Finnair flight to Delhi boards as expected. At the last minute the doors open again, and dozens of stewardesses (and one pilot) pour in. The music starts, and the stewardesses start a Bollywood dance. Teehee!
And while I'm at it, the latest (pre)teen thing here: 13 yo Robin, with his well sung but but ( Read more... ) -
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In what social context is it okay to say "Awwww! You're blushing!". Just asking. -
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(Not dead, just busy as always, and tired too, but that's no news either :)
Our latest Minister for Culture and Sport is Paavo Arhinmäki, a communist an avid fan of both team sports and popular music, with an unwritten opinion that high culture should go hang, or at least pay its own costs. As he's never visited the opera in his life, the entire ( Read more... ) -
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It's been a while but Bramble's Pumpkin has been history for some time already:
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What to do with a 2.5 kg pumpkin?One of Bramble's home-grown pumpkins (moved to granny's yard after window-sill growing at home) has produced a decent sized pumpkin that now waits to become... WHAT? I've found recipes for pumpkin pies (are they any good?), and a recipe for pumpkin bread (that looks more like a sweet bun than anything else), even a ( Read more... ) -
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Watching young preppy men in front of our office building today (not ours, nope, ours don't bother dressing up that prettily) I came to wonder about the word "sports jacket". Doesn't it sound more like a jogging jacket, a jacket for lifting weights or, I don't know, a hunting jacket ( Read more... )
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