Many of you have complained that the Saturday Puzzle did not appear. Forgive me, but life has been rather full these days.
After the great CHAFF meeting last Sunday, Isaac and family dropped in to see Annikki and her garden. Their programme was so tight that they did not even have time to step inside the house!
On Monday, Joanna and family and I joined Isaac and family for dinner at the only Indian restaurant in Oulu, the New Bombay. The owner, Tapon Bangabashi from Bangladesh, was there to look after us. The food has improved considerably except that he continues to use a lot of oil, far more than is required or is healthy.
Tapon won the Oulu Garlic Night Coking Competition for the best dish with a garlic/lentil soup preparation.
I had met him the at Wholesale Market just after his win. I snapped the proud and beaming winner! He and his wife, Hannele, worked hard for this victory. It was nice of Tapon to pay credit to his wife, publicly, for the win.
When I set out at 4:30 am on Tuesday morning to pick up Nalla and two of the girls (younger daughter Sareena and her friend Sheeba) to take them to the airport, as I passed one of the the main buildings on the way, I got the shock of my life when I saw the temperature on the large electronic signboard. I did not have a camera so doubled back at around 5:30 am. Although the temperature had risen slightly, it was a terrible foreboding of what lies around the corner!
(Interesting episode at Oulu Airport: Nalla and the girls were to fly from Oulu to Helsinki, change to SAS for the leg from Helsinki to Copenhagen and on to London, and then fly Air Canada to Toronto and to their final leg from Torronto to San Francisco. They had four pieces of luggage which they wanted booked through to their final destination. The guy at the Finnair check-in counter tried numerous times to check the luggage through. He asked his friend at the next counter and then his boss. They discovered that the Finnair computer only allows baggage to be booked to upto 3 journey legs. This would have meant collecting their baggage at London Heathrow, which is usually a mess as they have to change terminals. So they had to collect their baggage at Copenhagen and rebook them. Copenhagen is a nicer airport than Heathrow and also they had more time at their disposal between flights at this stop!)
Because I did not have my camera I missed another important photograph of a drunk man sprawled across the street on a pedestrian crossing at 4:30 am!
What has life become when on a Tuesday morning one comes across such a sight in the centre of Oulu in front of the City Hall.
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