After a mild July (for which I'm thankful), August seems to be making up for lost time. The past week saw temperatures soaring to high 20s. Sounds great by tropical Singapore's and even Finland's standards but thanks to the orientation of my apartment and the excellent build that retains heat so well in winter, it's 30c indoors. It's really no fun having minibeanie plastered to his mama during his feed who in turn is plastered to the leather sofa. Thus, we regularly seek respite outdoors where it doesn't feel like a greenhouse, at least not yet according to Al Gore.
The past week of going out, pram, diaper bag & all, has also made me realize that man, it's hard to look hot in baggy maternity tops & sensible flat shoes. And to top it all, my cute little red Louis Vuitton bag is just not practical anymore! (To my sis: u aren't eyeing my bag ;) Instead, what's holding my handphone is a PURPLE diaper bag that is complimentary from a Pampers rival. Is this a natural order of things?
minibeanie is 2 weeks 3 days old
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Sunday, July 15
Flea market
The basement cellar falls under the purview of DH since he has the strength and height to shove our Samsonites onto a 2.5m high pile of boxes. And on the rare occasion that I pay our cellar storeroom a visit - I've always been shocked at the amount of stuff we seem to accumulate over time. Hence, probably as a result of my nesting-cum-putting-stuff-away instinct, I did something that I'd wanted to do for a long time today. I sold some of my junk at the flea market! Well, like they say, one man's junk is another man's treasure.
It was great fun. I teamed up with some friends and had a great time. It felt more like a picnic since there were sandwiches, hot Chinese tea & lots of good humour/gossip to go around.
A & S (left) with her handmade jewellery
However, business was a little slow since it was an overcast day. Here are some of the items that I sold.
- An 'art' sculpture that we'd gotten as a wedding gift - 3€
- A Zara bomber jacket - 4.50€
- A pair of Hello Kitty bedroom slippers - 3€
(I think these are a steal honestly)
The bottomline? Some spare change for Ben & Jerry ice-cream, an enjoyable (though tiring) afternoon and a basement that is now just a little bit emptier.
M, no longer a kirpputori (flea market) virgin
38 weeks exactly
It was great fun. I teamed up with some friends and had a great time. It felt more like a picnic since there were sandwiches, hot Chinese tea & lots of good humour/gossip to go around.
A & S (left) with her handmade jewelleryHowever, business was a little slow since it was an overcast day. Here are some of the items that I sold.
- An 'art' sculpture that we'd gotten as a wedding gift - 3€
- A Zara bomber jacket - 4.50€
- A pair of Hello Kitty bedroom slippers - 3€
(I think these are a steal honestly)
The bottomline? Some spare change for Ben & Jerry ice-cream, an enjoyable (though tiring) afternoon and a basement that is now just a little bit emptier.
M, no longer a kirpputori (flea market) virgin
38 weeks exactly
Wednesday, July 4
"Strawberry Fields Forever"
Finally! After 4 years of living in Finland, I finally got to visit a strawberry farm! It was absolutely fantastic. The clear cloudless sky was just the perfect reason to get out of our stuffy apartment - so we made a simple picnic lunch of baguettes, mozzarella, tomato & pesto, packed a couple of containers for the berries and 2 hungry stomachs.
Just 30km from where we live, it already feels like the countryside.
Acres upon acres of farmland. It was no different at the strawberry farm. Rows upon rows of strawberry shrubs - some were merely little ones which won't be fruiting until the end of summer but on the other side, were the fully matured shrubs where several people were grazing. Our empty containers were weighed and then we j
oined our fellow grazers on our allotted 2 rows of strawberry shrubs.
Here's the best part, there is no limitation on how much we picked..... and more importantly, ate! There was plenty of fully ripened strawberries to pick and I reckoned we must have ate as much as 50% of what was in our containers. (They ought to weigh us at the entrance as well) Gosh, was it cheap. 2kg of sweet, delicious strawberries for 8 euros. I would expect to pay more than 2.5 times that at the shops. It was no surprise then that many folks driving up to the farm brought along washing pails.
I promised DH a strawberry cheesecake (light, because we both have a tummy each :P ), froze some of them for the rest of year and made the rest into jam.
For those living in Greater Helsinki, here's the address & url of the farm. Tosi hyviä mansikoita!
ps. Contrary to the lyrics of 1 of Beatles' most famous songs, the strawberry fields are very real indeed.
M with strawberries growing out of her ears
36 weeks 4 days
Just 30km from where we live, it already feels like the countryside.
Acres upon acres of farmland. It was no different at the strawberry farm. Rows upon rows of strawberry shrubs - some were merely little ones which won't be fruiting until the end of summer but on the other side, were the fully matured shrubs where several people were grazing. Our empty containers were weighed and then we j
oined our fellow grazers on our allotted 2 rows of strawberry shrubs.Here's the best part, there is no limitation on how much we picked..... and more importantly, ate! There was plenty of fully ripened strawberries to pick and I reckoned we must have ate as much as 50% of what was in our containers. (They ought to weigh us at the entrance as well) Gosh, was it cheap. 2kg of sweet, delicious strawberries for 8 euros. I would expect to pay more than 2.5 times that at the shops. It was no surprise then that many folks driving up to the farm brought along washing pails.
I promised DH a strawberry cheesecake (light, because we both have a tummy each :P ), froze some of them for the rest of year and made the rest into jam.
For those living in Greater Helsinki, here's the address & url of the farm. Tosi hyviä mansikoita!ps. Contrary to the lyrics of 1 of Beatles' most famous songs, the strawberry fields are very real indeed.
M with strawberries growing out of her ears
36 weeks 4 days
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