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We were away in Finland for the weekend for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
inannajones' grandmother's 80th birthday.
I'm very pleased with the trip, not least because we had snow - about an inch on Friday night - and then a glorious cold clear day on Saturday, with temperatures down around the -7°C mark.
There was also a very fine black dog atinannajones' grandmother's house, and while he seemed to understand even less Finnish than I do (or, more likely, my accent is as incomprehensible to dogs as it is to humans), we eventually settled on an arrangement where I would say "Sit!" in Finnish, and he'd drop the stick he was carrying, and when I said "Sit!" a second time, he'd actually sit. After which I'd throw the stick, he'd charge after it, bring it back, and we'd repeat the process, sometimes with a few more repetitions of the command bit, as my accent wandered in and out of comprehensibility. inannajones' goddaughter and her uncle's girlfriend did very well at concealing their amusement.
There is also a prospect of having horses there - the uncle and girlfriend are building a house, and will keep horses and teach riding. I haven't been on a horse since I was about 16, but I look forward to the prospect again.
We're going to be in Finland again for New Year. I'm looking forward to it greatly, and intend to mount a massive raid on the Tiimari craft chain.
(inannajones will be posting pictures soon. I shall be getting icons from some of them.)
inannajones' grandmother's 80th birthday. I'm very pleased with the trip, not least because we had snow - about an inch on Friday night - and then a glorious cold clear day on Saturday, with temperatures down around the -7°C mark.
There was also a very fine black dog at
inannajones' grandmother's house, and while he seemed to understand even less Finnish than I do (or, more likely, my accent is as incomprehensible to dogs as it is to humans), we eventually settled on an arrangement where I would say "Sit!" in Finnish, and he'd drop the stick he was carrying, and when I said "Sit!" a second time, he'd actually sit. After which I'd throw the stick, he'd charge after it, bring it back, and we'd repeat the process, sometimes with a few more repetitions of the command bit, as my accent wandered in and out of comprehensibility. inannajones' goddaughter and her uncle's girlfriend did very well at concealing their amusement.There is also a prospect of having horses there - the uncle and girlfriend are building a house, and will keep horses and teach riding. I haven't been on a horse since I was about 16, but I look forward to the prospect again.
We're going to be in Finland again for New Year. I'm looking forward to it greatly, and intend to mount a massive raid on the Tiimari craft chain.
(
inannajones will be posting pictures soon. I shall be getting icons from some of them.)