inky fingers

Olen kulkenut junalla Euroopassa aika paljon ja minusta on selvää, että joka veturilla on ilme. Tämä Ruotsin rautateiden veturi on selvästi hiukan apea mutta hyvin päättäväinen ja luotettava. Minusta sen vetämässä junassa on hyvä matkustaa.
I have travelled quite much with trains in Europe. The locomotives are different in each contry, and each of them has a distinct personality. This loco of Swedish trail roads seems to be a bit moody but very headstrong. I loved to go with it.

In the old times, when clothes were usually stored in cold sheds, my grandfather took the fur coat in to the house to get it warm before Christmas. After a while he noticed that something started to move inside the sleeve. There was a bat hibernating, and it started to wake up in the warmth. Gently my grandfather took the fur coat with the bat back out and to the shed.
That year my grandfather went to the Christmas ceremony in the church in his homespun working coat.

The first computer I ever used, was a big metal box on the table, using paper tape to save data. The second one was a huge box using discs about 40 cm in diameter. Either of them were really ineffective in comparison with any nowadays phone.
That all was a long time ago. He he.

Yritys kasvattaa salaattia ja porkkanoita kanien varjossa: melkein metsin korkuinen lava.
Trying to get some lettuce and carrots for me: a bed of soil is almost one meter high.

Päivän aihe herätti muistoja. Memories.

Washing.

Päivän tehtävä on kuvata itsensä yksisarvisena. Aina ei voi onnistua.
The challenge of today is to see oneself as unicorn. Identity crisis.

At 70’s it meant solidarity. They were manufactured in refugee camps.
About twenty years ago I learned that western armies used them too. Mil-Tec produced them in masses and they were sold in military shops in Finland.
Still I use it – it is the softest and warmest thing to have.