dregs of the day.

on an ordinary day.

one of those days where you’re slightly claustrophobic, because it feels like the whole world is inside you, and you cannot escape it, because you cannot escape yourself, and your room is all you...

Wollaton Park on April 30th.

Wollaton Park grounds. Wollaton Park Garden (with a view over the grounds that i forgot to take a picture of). hyacinths and other gorgeous flowers planted everywhere; the scent of them was...

(1 out of) 3 cities.

the very first thing we did in Liverpool was go to Penny Lane – it’s Liverpool, you have to see something related to the Beatles. here is Hetty, my perfect guide! this is from the following...

spring on campus, according to my phone.

so, so lovely. there are flowers everywhere, and the trees have gone green with leaves in the space of a week.

(two out of) three cities.

i’m terrible at updating nowadays. it’s always at the back of my mind to make a new post, but then something else comes along and i forget. either way, two days after returning from Helsinki, while...

tuesday list.

hur såg du ut för ett år sedan? såhär ungefär. vilket är ditt mest använda ord denna vecka? har märkt att det kanske är ‘shit’. inte riktigt säker varför. har du någon fobi? åtminståne att bli...

food, sunshine, home.

first proper meal in several days. jazz concert in Mikael Agricola church on good friday. Kaisa, finnish food & a couple of pints on saturday (& sunshine!) flowers, hens & chicks for easter sunday....

day-trip to Leeds.

exacly a week ago on saturday at 8AM, a small group of us took the bus (2,5 h) to Leeds for the day! here’s what i managed to capture from our time there. a sea of flowers at Leeds City Markets (i...

truth? or now, content with closeness?

* Virginia Woolf: “Monday or Tuesday”

Eastwood, Nottinghamshire.

“The kitchen was small and full of firelight; red coals piled glowing up the chimney mouth. All the life of the room seemed in the white warm hearth and the steel fender reflecting the red fire....

Nottingham with Parents, part 2.

Sunday’s main event was going up to Nottingham Castle! i’m surprised i managed to go three weeks without visiting the place, but it was worth it once you were there. there is little left of the...

Nottingham with parents, part 1.

friday evening, we walked through Uni Park to Mooch, the campus bar. mom & dad wanted to have dinner there, and so they did! beers were consumed and very much enjoyed afterwards. dad & i walked to...

6 x instagram.

we’ve had all kinds of weather, from +10 & sunny to -1 and snowing! still, there are some flowers that seem to survive anything, and the mist that preceded tuesday’s gorgeous weather was lovely in...

a walk into Beeston.

had thought taking the bus was really the only option until three days ago, when a bunch of us did a beer run to Beeston’s Tesco. takes a while, sure, but it’s worth it. strange and exotic (to me)...

friday feb 2nd in 11 pictures.

8 AM – up! 9AM – breakfast in the dining hall. 10AM – reading up for my modules in the library. 11AM – same as before. 12PM – did some shopping. 1PM – supplemented my lunch in the halls with some...

i have landed.

had a soft landing to my moving to England by spending the first few days with my cousin and her husband in London! it was excellent in every way, not the least of which was to take my mind off...

january in 10 instagram shots.

1. clubbing on new year’s with Kaisa / 2. moving! 3. picked up more moving boxes & hauled them by myself on the metro. felt like superwoman (deceivingly heavy, those things) /4. ’08 & ’12 passport...

-21 ° celsius.

it was gorgeous when i looked outside on friday morning; absolutely pure white snow, blue skies and blindingly sunny. so i pretty much guessed that it would be freezing outside, but-21° was a bit...

ei mihinkään, ei kenellekään.

100 years in Porvoo.

this past saturday was my great aunt’s 100th birthday! she’s always been really cool and tough, drove a car until she turned 90 and is still going amazingly strong. i took the bus to Porvoo with my...

in transition.

phew. i’ve moved out of my aparment; all my things are in a rented storage space; i’ve got two suitcases full of stuff for Nottingham waiting for me at my parents’, and in the mean time i’m staying...

2012 – Happy 2013!

(questions stolen and translated from Niotillfem) Did you do anything in 2012 that you hadn’t done before? Quite a lot, I think! Had post bariatric surgery, was in my first proper relationship, had...

irtiolo.

en osaa selittää, kirjoittaa siitä, miksi tämä ei kiinnosta eikä onnistu. miksi kamerasta on tullut joku koriste-esine hyllyn päällä, eikä kauniita otoksia synny edes mielessä enää. niin on, mutta...

gratitude 24.11.12

grateful for last night. grateful for Outo Homo; grateful to learn new things, grateful for honesty, grateful for going out. grateful for life. grateful to remember the good things. grateful i...

thursday.

an excellent day.

instagram x 13.

finished off my first pair of legwarmers, ever! i quite like them. a lovely lunch of brussel sprouts, mushrooms, aubergine & an omelet! went out for tea with a friend of a friend at Bar Molotov,...

on the balcony.

a workday.

packed lunch. my mess of a desk: used cups and glasses, make-up, walle, hairbands, water bottle, school papers, body lotions etc, etc. make-up! 9 times out of 10 i don’t wear any. went to put on my...

escapology.

these were taken on a sunday walk that was supposed to only be a quick amble around the block and ended up with me coming home an hour and two and a half miles later! loved it.