I am back.

Back to work, that means. My left arm should be ok they told me and sent me back into office. Well, it looks fine to the naked eye but it really dont work that way at all... :)
I have to live with the fact that I have to excercise it for months to come, in order to build up the muscles and retrieve the flexibility. Maybe it would never be as flexible again as before the accident. My left biceps has deteriorated into something like Rachel Fullers "Bingo wings" and is hanging down on the wrong side of the arm.
Looks quite silly...
Well, the next week I am allowed to start lifting heavy stuff and throwing things so I think I will be in shape for some windsurfing in the summer.
It seems that the spring is arriving here soon because the temperature outside is now reaching the level it usually reaches in the middle of April. I hope we won´t have the usual backlash we often see with blizzards and temperature dropping down to -15 C in the end of April.
Take care!

Hans

It is done!

I purchased four of the most expensive tickets to The Who concert in Hartwall Arena, Helsinki the 9:th of July 2007. Row 2 in the center, seats 1 - 4. The Who is a must to see and I want to share that experience with my whole family because it was the band that had the greatest influence on me in the mid sixties. The Stones, the Kinks, the Small Faces, they came and went and they were good but I recurrently returned to The Who. And still am. I have been a frequent visitor at www.peteownshend.co.uk since I found it some 10 years ago so I am pretty updated regarding what they are up to.. :) I hpe to meet some of you in Helsinki in July!
Hans

The Who is coming to Finland!

I nearly fell of my chair this morning when I read about it in the local news paper!
Or if I use a quote from Rachel Fuller: "I nearly peed in my pants.." that´s the level of my ashtonishment with the fact.
Well, Hartwall Arena, here I come! I hope that In The Attic will be there too.

I did a Pete yesterday...

And it was very painful. As you Who- and Pete Townshend fans know, Pete had a bike accident in 1991, smashing his wrist and yesterday I had a bike accident on the icy and slippery Finnish roads and smashed my left elbow into smithereens. :(
Coincindentally I also smashed my left wrist in Novemder 1991 falling out of a tree from where I was removing some remainings of a long-wire antenna I´ve used when I was listening to Radio London and Radio Caroline in the 60:ies.
Typing with one hand is very slow and confusing.
Hans

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from Finland to everybody i blogland! Attached you see a picture of our house but this year there is no snow on the ground. :(
The picture is from last year in the beginning of December when we had a normal, cold winter with just enough of snow. This very evening, the day before Christmas Eve it is raining. But now when we have decorated the house and brought in the Christmas tree I slowly start to get this very special Christmas feeling anyhow!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Me as a South Park character

There is a picture generating program at http://www.sp-studio.de where you can pick elements and compose a South Park character out of yourself. This i me:







Nice, isn´t it? :)
The Royal Air Force insignia, better known as the "bullseye" and a very important detail to a Who-fan, is not a part of the paraphernalia at sp-studio, it is created afterwards using the Paint-program in Windows.
Talking about the Who, I got their latest album "Endless Wire" as a gift for "Fathers Day" last sunday. Go ahead and by it. It is an order!

Back to work... :(

I am back at work now since Monday and I am slowly recovering from the shock....
As the summer is still as it´s best I have to post some pictures here to remind me (and you)of the summer.

Here I am, driving me dinghy through the waterscape:





Another Sunny Afternoon:





The Author:





A Sunny day in the marina in Björkö:

The Kvarken Archipelago is now a World Heritage!

It was decided in the UNESCO meeting yesterday that the Kvarken Archipelago should be added to the World Heritage list!
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/266
I am back here with my family to do some shopping and attend the garden but we will go back into the World Heritage later this evening if the wind calms down, it is now blowing at 30 knots and as we are using my old 21 ft open dinghy to get to the summer-house, it is a wery wet ride before we get there if the wind is blowing at such speed.
Not much time to hang out on ITA and the Who tour with you nice people but i will sure be back on full-time later in the beginning of August.
In the meantime I will bring my amateur-radio stuff out there and will be active on the most HF- bands on SSB and some CW using my IC-706 MKII and a delta-loop cut for 40 m. My call is OH6MY and I use to be active on the IOTA-waterhole at 14265 kHz in the local afternoons here or 0900 to 1500 UTC.
Have a nice summer wherever you are!

Living in a World Heritage to be.

The Kvarken Archipelago, the archipelago located between Sweden and Finland where the Gulf of Bothnia is at its narrowest, is on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative list.
I was born and raised out there on an Island named Björkö. My mother is still living there at her own at the age of 85 and I have a small summer-house at the waterfront out there on one of the thousands and thousands small islands.
This landscape is said to be unique and nothing similar is found anywhere else in the world. Or at least we are told so...
This landscape was shaped by the withdrawing glaciers from the last glacial era some 10000 years ago, leaving huge moraine- formations and giant blocks of stone at the rim of the withdrawing ice-masses every summer, later, when the ice had completely melted away, the depressed crust of the earth started to raise again and we still have a raising of the land at a speed of som 8 - 10 mmm/a in this region.
When I was a little boy, we could row a boat in places that nowadays are completely dry!
These watery landscapes are continually changing when the land rises and new islands are emerging out of the water and soon will be populated by grass, bushes and trees.
I have posted some photos earlier and here are some more!



The author "on the rocks" :

A view from the backside of our summer-house:

A view towards one of the neighbour islands, the typical moraine- formations are seen here:

Another view from "our island":

Jonathan Livingstone I presume?:

Another view in another direction:

The flora and fauna is very rich, the dragonflies are common because they thrieve on mosquitos and there are a lot of mosquitos...

Some dragonflies decided to have a lunch-break on my chest and my nose! :)

Scattered photos from my surroundings..

Thunderstorm arriving into our neighbourhood:




Our garden-shed, originally built by my grandfather in 1923 but relocated to our lot in 1995:




The summer-house:



View towards Sweden from the porch at our summer-house:



Swans close to the shore at our summer-house:



Seagulls homing in at the leftovers after I´ve prepared and cleaned the fish:

Hallelujah!

Wise men said that Finland will not win the Eurovision Song Contest before:
A) Hell freezes over
B) There is proof of life on Mars

This morning when biking into town a noticed that the weather is unusually cold and an UFO was flying past some few blocks away from my job....
:)

Ho, hum...

Had to get me an own login and blog because most of the people here won´t accept anonymous comments so here I am, lost in space...