February 10, 2008

Finally the sun...

Some impressions from a beautiful weekend in Dun Laoghaire!

February 3, 2008

its windy and rainy…and cold inside



…and it just does not stop.
I am constantly shivering; mainly when I am inside our apartment (with the heating on full heat) or in the office.
It has been wet and rainy for two months now and every morning that I wake up and don’t feel like sneezing (or like my throat for once isn’t aching, or I have nothing else to complain about☺), I hop on to the tram and am greeted by a stream of commuters blowing their noses and looking at me with teary eyes as if they are trying to tell me just how dreadful they feel and how fed up they are with constant wind and rain.

I have to say I miss the well-insulated apartments in Finland. Yes, it was cold on the outside, but once you got home you could hang out in a T-shirt and feel comfortable (you could also fill your bath tub with gallons of hot water and take endless hot bathes). Its bad how we tend to remember only the good things from a distance, but at weekends like this I just would love to dive into a hot warm bath (our immersion heater gives up when the tub is half full) and then spend an evening on my sofa without being wrapped up in two blankets and still shivering.
Just a thought☺