Several faces of one woman

Most of you know Annikki as the creative designer that she is. Her cake calendar has circled the globe and drawn huge praise. Her recycled garden has been looked at in awe by Finns from all over the country as it was featured in the leading magazine in Finland.

But there are many other faces of this person that several of you do not know.
In this entry I show one of those faces.

Annikki is a person of great humour. Over the years I can recount many instances of her abounding humour. However, this one instance of just a couple of days ago shows how I can come to that conclusion.

Thee Lidl Department Store recently advertised some garden decorative items as a turtle, a rabbit and a frog. It was said that they had movement sensors, and if anyone passed by, they would make a sound.

Off I was sent on a mission to buy them for the Kampitie garden.

Lidl Oulu only had the turtle, which I faithfully brought home. I was expecting it to be in the garden the next day.

Wolf whistling turtle

I put the battery into the turtle and found that the noise it made was a wolf whistle, rather loud. So I shut off the sensor and left it for Annikki to set it up in the garden.

The next day, when I returned from my shopping trip, Annikki was in spliits of laughter, and her mother, Hilja, was equally in great spirits.

There it was, sitting on the kitchen table was the turtle, directly in front of Hilja. Every time Hilja moved, the turtle would let off a very loud wolf whistle.

What Hilja hears, we cannot tell, but it appeared to greatly amuse her as she talked to the turtle.

That, of course, had Annikki in splits of laughter to see her mother talking to the wolf whistling turtle. This, in turn, had an effect on her mother, who was greatly amused by seeing her daughter rolling all over the place laughing.

Every time Hilja was getting a little difficult with her food or health boosters, Annikki wouldswitch on the turtle and the wolf whistle would turn the whole antagonistic atmosphere to one of great mirth.

Laughter makes the world go round. Annikki is one who knows how to use this tool effectively.

No doubt, the turtle will be turning some heads in the garden before very long!