Any closer and this guy’d have a nice dented bonnet before the end of the day. This usually happens when the temperature rises a bit after a large snowfall, the whole volume of snow slides down the roof. I can just hear the thuds now as the snow falls. This can actually be dangerous enough [...]

   Just took a couple of quick snaps out my office/cubicle/corner window. Feckin winter. Edit: Which reminds me, the macamobile needs new winter tyres.

Posting has been slow this past week, as have been my responses to your comments, apologies. A lack of energy and motivation is the problem, it’s probably brought on by the coming of winter. I hate winter, especially here, it’s bloody cold, uncomfortable and a tad depressing. We had our first snow here last week [...]

I saw the most amazing migration of birds the other evening. Ok, birds tend to migrate whenever i’m in the pub, usually to the opposite corners, but i’m referring to our feathered friends here. We were just going shopping and as we parked our car we saw hundreds of cranes flying overhead [where else can [...]

Ok, the first of my games is out of the way. Finland (my current residence) knocked 5 past Macedonia with the help of a Forssell hat-trick … … ok, who cares, all eyes are on the Ireland (oops, Republic of-) tonight against France. Kick-off is in about half an hour, damn i’m excited about this [...]

A while ago I was whinging about the cost of petrol here, i’ve even more reason to whinge now due to last weeks price spike. The Helsingin Sanomat were predicting a price rise of about €0.14-0.15 when prices changed Friday night last. In Helsinki the price for 95E unleaded (before the price rise) varied from [...]

Repeat after me … perkele! Yes, i’ll admit I did get caught up in a couple of seasons of big brother, mainly the one where the queer Irish lad won it. But it’s still one of the worst things on TV, even with all the editing. Have you watched the fully live BB? Dreadful. Anyway, [...]

Leg 1: On the 24th August 2000, mid-afternoon, I finished packing the car and set off for Dun Laoghaire where I had to pick up a passenger before catching the late ferry to Holyhead. The trip across the Irish Sea was uneventful, and hardly worth mentioning. Leg 2: We arrived in Holyhead shortly before midnight, [...]

You know what get’s up my nose in Finland? Cyclists. Over here they cycle on the footpaths and not the roads. That’s not the problem as such, though I’d prefer them on the roads. No, the problem is their attitude. Finnish cyclists seem to believe that they own the footpaths and pedestrians don’t exist. Maybe [...]

I ran into my favourite Finnish celeb the other day. We were just going to the supermarket and who should I see coming out but the gorgeous Janna Pelkonen, ex-host of a computer game show “Tilt”. And shortly afterwards we saw her again in the chippers. She’s actually from this city but i’d never seen her before. And also from this city are Krisse, a comedian who has her own comedy talk show and Jari Litmanen the footballer.