Winter wonderland

Winter has finally made its presence known in the last few days. This weekend, we have been engaged in a variety of winter activities for the kids, involving sleighs being dragged around and friendly quarrels with Outi about whether it really builds character to be frozen stiff, standing in the snow.

I do prefer the snow to the dark, wet alternative when winter keeps at bay, however. Last Tuesday was a particularly memorable evening, when we were celebrating the end of an era at STRADA research program, my previous employer at a restaurant at the heart of Helsinki, overlooking the Esplanadi park. It had started to snow and the gentle evening created the perfect atmosphere for celebrating a cherished time, which had inevitably passed all of us by.

Then Yoda spoke: "Difficult to keep the horizon level, it is".