The sheltering sky

Underneath the sheltering sky and above the roofs of Helsinki we enjoyed
the company of Harvey Wallbanger, in the Ateljee Bars candle light..

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Suojaavan taivaan alla ja Helsingin kattojen yllä me nautimme
Harvey Wallbangerin seurasta, Ateljee Barin kynttilän valossa..

By Crumpet

Delight, pleasure, enjoyment, exhilaration, gladness, part 2

Things that delight me today:

1) Crumpet, yay! :)
2) It is weekend soon, yay! :)
3) Getting better, and hopefully soon cough free!
4) Sushi-balls after a while
5) Wellamo’s menu and stuffing ourselves tomorrow

By Bean

Asioita, jotka ilahduttavat minua tänään:

1) Crumpet, jee! ;)
2) Kohta on viikonloppu, jee! :)
3) Parantuminen, vielä kun pääsisi yskästä!
4) Sushipallerot pitkästä aikaa
5) Wellamon ruokalista ja huomiset syömingit

By Bean

Delight, pleasure, enjoyment, exhilaration, gladness

Things that delight me today:

1) Bean is feeling slightly better
2) Planning our sabbatical
3) Giant cup of rosehip tea (I've stopped using caffeine products almost entirely years ago)
4) Ricky Tomlinson's Ricky is waiting at the post office
5) Arranging the party on Friday
6) I've started two new studies
7) Today our home will be cleaned from top to bottom
8) It’s almost February
9) Our plans for the trip to New York are coming together nicely
10) Clean laundry at home, waiting to be organized in to the closet

By Crumpet
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Asioita, jotka ilostuttavat tänään:

1) Papu voi jo hiukan paremmin
2) sapattivapaan suunnitteleminen
3) jättikuppi kuumaa ruusunmarjateetä (olen lopettanut kofeiinin käytön lähes kokonaan jo vuosia sitten)
4) postissa odottava Ricky Tomlinsonin Ricky
5) perjantain juhlien järjestäminen
6) olen aloittanut kahdessa uudessa koulutuksessa
7) tänään pääsee puunaamaan kodin puti-puhtaaksi
8) kohta on jo helmikuu
9) New Yorkin matkasuunnitelmat etenevät
10) kaappiin laittamista odottavat puhtaat pyykit kotona

By Crumpet

Passing time

The time passes ever so slowly for the convalescing.
Lying on the bed and lying on the sofa.
Reading and watching series/movies on DVD.
Waiting for the appetite to return.
Couchging, fever, runny nose and sweating.
Feeling cold.

The mind of the partner is filled with worry.
Is the one convalescing getting worse or finally better?
How are they feeling?
Would they manage to nibble, even a tiny bit?
Is the medication working?
Staying up, food service, stroking & cuddling, comforting words.
Accompanying when going to the doctor.

By Crumpet
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Toipilaan aika kuluu tahmean hitaasti.
Pötköttelyä sängyssä ja pötköttelyä sohvalla.
Lukemista ja sarjojen/leffojen katselua dv:ltä.
Ruokahalun paluun odotusta.
Yskimistä, kuumetta, nuhaa ja hikoilua.
Välillä paleltaa.

Toipilaan kumppanin mielen täyttää huoli.
Voiko toipilas huonommin vai vihdoin paremmin?
Miltä tuntuu?
Maistuisiko edes jokin pieni?
Tehoavatko lääkkeet?
Valvomista, ruokahuoltoa, silitystä & haleja, lohduttavia sanoja.
Lääkäriin mukaan seuraksi.

By Crumpet

As time goes by

It's great fun to celebrate the life's special occasions, your own as well as those of your closest ones.
It's nice to make plans and celebrate the occasion in the way that the celebrated wants to.

One needs to enjoy life to it's fullest, because it is just so short spurt anyway.

Every annual ring that we gather to our lives or to our relationships is unique.
Remember to appreciate it, branches and all.

By Crumpet
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Elämän merkkipäiviä on mukava juhlia, ovat ne sitten läheisten tai omia.
On hauskaa tehdä suunnitelmia ja viettää juhlaa juhlittavan haluamalla tavalla.

Elämästä pitää osata nauttia, niin lyhyt pyrähdys se on.
Jokainen vuosirengas, joka kertyy elämäämme tai parisuhteeseemme, on ainutlaatuinen.
Muista arvostaa sitä, oksineenkin.

By Crumpet

Explanation to us all

James (Jim) Hacker: "I know exactly who reads the papers.
The Daily Mail is read by people who think they run the country.
The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country.
The Times is read by people who actually do run the country.
The Daily Mirror is read by the wives of the people who run the country.
The Financial Times is read by people who own the country.
The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country.
The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is."
Sir Humphrey Appleby: "Prime Minister, what about people who read the Sun?"
Bernard Woolley: "Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits."

In Yes, Prime Minister

By Bean & Crumpet

Honky-honk

" I am a spent egg."

Freddie Threepwood in P.G. Wodehouse's Blandings Castle

Lip-lock

Between two people, there either is that chemistry when kissing for the first time or there isn't.
And if there is, after that experience one can not or does not want to go back to the time with out that chemistry ..One can not accept bad kissing anymore.

By Crumpet
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Kahden ihmisen välillä joko on kemiaa, kun he suutelevat ensimmäistä kertaa, tai sitten sitä ei ole.
Ja jos sitä on, sen kokemuksen jälkeen ei voi eikä halua palata aikaan ilman tuota kemiaa..Huonoja suudelmia ei enää yksinkertaisesti halua.

By Crumpet

Quote of the day

From this William Shakespeare's sonet XVIII comes the tittle to our loved tv-series The Darling Buds of May:

Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

By Crumpet

Promises, promises

We were talking on New Year’s Eve with my colleagues about New Year's resolutions. Many had good ones: to stop smoking, to go to bed earlier and so forth.

I promised to be kinder next year. To this one of my colleagues said, that is that even possible? But I think one can always try to be kinder towards their closest ones…

By Crumpet
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Juttelimme uuden vuoden aattona työkavereiden kanssa uuden vuoden lupauksista. Monella oli hyviä lupauksia: lopettaa tupakanpoltto, mennä aikaisemmin nukkumaan jne.

Itse lupasin olla kiltimpi ensi vuonna. Tähän yksi työkaveri sanoi, että onko se edes mahdollistakaan? Mutta mielestäni aina voi yrittää olla parempi läheisiään kohtaan..

By Crumpet