by BARR GREGORY on December 4, 2009
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Excerpt: Myself and my wife will be departing for Lappeenranta,Eastern Finland,tomorrow morning.We here in Helsinki received our first snowfall early this morning.As there is likely to be more snow before Christmas and the temperatures will plummet,we have to turn on the heating in our country cottage.This will prevent any damage to the water pipes in the kitchen and bathroom. Lappeenranta Finland(Suomi) The city of Lappeenranta is approximately 230Km east of Helsinki,at only 211Km from Saint Petersburg.This is to give you some idea as to where it is situated.On a traffic less day,the journey can be made in 3 hours.However there are usually a…
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by BARR GREGORY on November 29, 2009
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Excerpt: Well,that time of year,Christmas I am referring to,is rapidly approaching.As a Helsinki blogger I am trying to fit running the blog,shopping,and getting to know my new desktop.I am also trying to cajole a good and dear friend of myself and wife to visit us this Christmas.She is half Indian,half Welsh,but she comes from Cardiff, so I say she is Welsh.She even speaks the local lingo with that almost singing poetical dialect. She says that she has an invite to spend Christmas in London and really is unsure as to whether she will be able to make the trip.I of course.who lived…
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by BARR GREGORY on November 25, 2009
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Excerpt: Finland`s Blogger November Nightmare This month,November started out bad for a Blogger it gradually got worse.First my trusted Windows Xp crashed and was beyond repair,so it was moved to a box in the cellar.Myself and my wife then flirted around Helsinki,Finland looking for a reasonably priced replacement.We eventually found a system,a Windows vista x64 with vista home premium installed.Great I thought.I had instantly doubled my Ram and was heading in to a new future armed with a Vista 64 bit operating system. The Vista compatibility problem I had set up my windows Xp just the way I wanted.I had my favorite software,Raxco perfect…
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