Quiet Week

Eventless days have forced me to remain silent for some time now… a whole five days however and I am feeling the drive to grab a pan and publish all that happens to others. Even if my life is in a quiet period, I cannot say that this is true for others. On the contrary, there are some who are truly close to my heart and who are engaged in fantastic adventures. Or at least it seems to me.

Tobi, Lili, Moses, Molly, Sleeping beauty and her Guinea Pigs are all away in Rollo, Rovaniemi for the weekend. The house is quiet and the silence is almost disturbing. In fact it is somewhat but also nice in some way. Besides, I have not been spending that much time home recently. Not to mention that there was a bit of phasing of silence into our lives. So there isn’t really a culture shock to handle.

On Monday, late night Tobi finally gave in to his desires and - no, he hasn’t brought home a cat for dinner, that I would not have tolerated as we don’t eat meat anymore - but he has left for Vietnam. You see, he is from Vietnam and it is quite natural as all dragons are from the Indochina and quite generally from Vietnam, or so he claims. There are legends, among humans saying that part of the world is the home of dragons. So there might be a degree of authenticity to his claim.

Tobi has become homesick so he went for a short visit at the start of the week. A really short one and I have my guesses why so but come to that on its own time, some other days maybe. He become homesick after my fantastic Sunday at work now 6 days ago, when he thought it was almost like watching dragons fight, expect for the fire. I remember how he was so excited about bringing some extra fire next time from Hungary when he visits there. Finally, late Monday night after hours of moaning he left. He originally comes from a small island just off the coast from a very distinguishable family and I found out that he is one of the youngest at the ridiculously young age of 83. Some time ago he was sent on a Walkabout to learn the world and himself in it and when he returned they sent him out again as he recounted to me but he doesn‘t want to talk about it much. I guess I understand that, because Tobi is not the sharpest knife in the drawer to be perfectly honest with ourselves and he seems to have an issue with learning things in an appropriately quick manner. Of course dragons are generally slow learners. As Tobi often places the question to me ‘What’s the rush pal?’ all dragons think in a similar manner.

He was back by Thursday morning which was even sooner that anticipated and the 2 full days he was gone has brought some changes to the house. Thursday was the day Lili departed to Rovaniemi. Right in the morning, at breakfast Molly and Tobi have decided that they would go ahead, scout the area and make a day of flying around in Rollo. That was them on the way. In the afternoon, Lili took Sleeping Beauty with her who in turn took her own 2 guinea pigs while Moses found her way into one of Sari’s bag. That was the lot of them away. And since the house is quiet, we don’t want to disturb its resting too much so yesterday, for instance, I have not come home from work in the afternoon, sat in a café enjoying Rousseau then met up with Jen to have dinner then sat on the terrace of a pub in the Harbour. When the sun set behind the robust and ugly theatre building, temperature started plummeting. People nearly froze, we set under blankets.

Today after work I wondered into a café to find a guy with an amasing amount of lego spilled on the table front of him with a sign up saying something like ‘join in’ so I did. I built a Hopper, which is basically a space chopper from…

I have built a universe by the time I was finished with the small thing in my hands.

Tomorrow everyone comes home. Things will be back to normal.