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At nine pm the lake is calm and silent. He wants to go fishing. I take my rod and my quality Swedish reel and stroll quietly through the city tree reserve. There we see three hares, big and calm like kangaroos from down under. He chases them his toy gun firing. The hares barely notices him and slowly disappear in the long hay. We are not alone to fish by the lake. There are two others where I teach him how to use the reel. We return as always, empty handed.
What the knife of Brutus and the long night of Nothingness - or le Néant, as the French put it - did to the mortal body of Julius Cesar, namely that we don't know what the imperator looked in real life, has now been reversed by the admirable French under water archeologists: they found a bust of Cesar in the river Rhone. And it is the first known realist portrait of Julius...
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As the title implies it's mothers' day in Finland. I called Mom to congratulate. Then I took my bike out went to Pyynikki. A local sports club organizes a bike race there on mothers' day since 1981. The road climbs up from the disaffected fabrics factory to the observation tower - a very steep hill. A good spot to take some pictures. There were not that many spectators - some tens. Finland is not a cycling country - alas.
Strolling by the lake with my son today it was +22 c and the young master decided to go shirtless - which up here in Tampere doesn't happen that often.
When you go to sauna and open the door, warm air hits you gently and envelops you. The same way came summer over Tampere.
This season's first 100 km ride took me to Kangasala and Valkeakoski. A nice quiet road. Warm breeze from SSE. I did not set any speed goal to attain. I only kept an eye on pulsemeter, tried to keep it between 115 - 120. Took a photo on the old village road of Lempäälä.
Fridtjof Nansen - in the picture below- was the first to cross Greenland on skis in 1886. It is a great story. And the finnish translation published in 1896 by Teuvo Pakkala has for some time been in public domain. I decided to publish it as an ebook on nokia's mosh site. The Norwegian national library gave me permission to use their database of Nansen's photos. Also, on Nansen's crew were two Samis from Karasjokk - and the other one, Samuel Balto wrote his own story that has never been translated into finnish before. I will include Balto's story as well. In all I think it's going to be interesting to see the reception.
Reading for an exam this friday. I'm also preparing a new ebook that I will publish at the mosh.nokia.com. The last that i made was a cooking book originally published in 1919 with the title '200 recipies for the lonely'. It has been downloaded over 500 times. Pretty cool for an old cooking book.
To read, to read, to read. To remember. To recollect. ... And to write. And read again.
We walked our usual path around the lake. There is a ruined farm, ruined some fifty years ago. We built a snow castle there. It was a quiet misty day.
