Gush! It’s dark!!!!

…and with that I feel like I shouldn’t be writing anything else in good keeping with this last week.
But again! I feel the duty in this blog. Even some enthusiastic calling.
And a dragon who by the way I have learned from Lili has got a friend. Smirky smile when I ask about it. Her name is Elena. She is just a friend of some sort I am told. Interesting. I am only a little disappointed I had to find out from Lili. But I guess Tobi can talk and share with others too.

I guess they must have met in Brazil about a week ago when Tobi was there on church adventures which he kind of liked, the adventures but came to the same conclusion as me about the content. Oh well!

Trying to remember this past week and I realise that I should have been writing more often. Or at least I should make some notes for it is difficult to remember highlight events in his absence while he is mostly quiet about the adventures in the sunshine, wild churches and stuff. I don’t know though. It joust sound so Finnish to me. I wonder… has she just made it up?! I mean Lili.
But why would he be so aloof about it?
Dropping it the thing to do.


I met an interesting magpie. In fact I have met a lot of interesting birds the last week. I think it probably has a link with the new habit of reusing the old bread we happen to accumulate in our house as bird feed. One of these days I deposited a vast amount of crumbs outside our office at Yliopisto katu 16 when I arrived at work. It was cold. Dark and everything felt empty. All but me were asleep at 05:54.

Couple of hours later I sat outside on the bench enjoying a warm cup of tea and anticipating sunrise only 23 minutes away by then when this guy appeared. First he landed on the spot where I left the crumbs earlier then he came and sat on the roof a few meters away from where I sat. He stuck his dead over the edge and looked at me curiously. Then he came closer and tried to motion - I don’t understand magpie you know, not well at least - so he tried to show me with his head where the food should be. He flew there again and looked at me questioningly ‘are you really so dumb that you don’t get what I’m trying to say here buddy?’ I told him I understood when he came back again to the edge of the roof but I think his Human was rustier than my Magpie. Similar stories happened outside our house with different kinds.

The absolute highlight of the week however was going to town with Lili to watch a Hungarian made movie, a piece screened during the International Children’s Film Festival. I thought it would be great to see something in the cinema in Hungarian. Some people walked out after 20 minutes and I was tempted to join. The makers thought that making a 70 minutes long show without talking in it is a wonderful idea. I disagreed. Lili was bored out of her head but did not want to leave. It was not fun!

The wind is howling outside throwing snow around as if it was just some light fluffy substance. Darkness is permanent now if one blinks at midday. Winter is moving in and although South wind has had some revival… she is gone now. I dream of being somewhere else…
Brazil… Sunshine…