Northern Light – chilled thoughts from the top of Europe

"Let it be one cheerful rational voice amidst the din of mourners and polemics." Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1840. A Brit-in-Helsinki's blog about global politics, climbing, cycling, things that annoy me and other bits of life. But not necessarily in that order.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

My bus stop

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To continue today's "inclement weather" theme (also related to the fact that I was actually carrying a camera about with me) h...
Monday, November 06, 2006

Soggy Blizzard

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Helsinki after a soggy blizzard. The ice on the lake was all pristine and white but has gone blotchy with all the heavy sleet.

A definition of brave

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I've taken the picture of above from a NYT multimedia presentation that everyone should have a look at. It's words and pictures te...
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Sunday, November 05, 2006

Winter has arrived

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Brrrr... chilly out: Taken at about midnight, saturday 4th A week of sub-zero temps so we took a chance to take our ice gear out to a crag n...
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Thursday, November 02, 2006

Radio OpenSource

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I've just been listening to the Radio Open Source show on Somalia from a couple of days ago. I had left a few comments on their blog an...

Hello from London

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I'm writing this in London on my mate's iBook, looking out from his window towards Canary Warf, the Millenium Dome and Greenwich. T...
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Saturday, October 28, 2006

Caption Competition

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I was just looking at the photo of Tony Snow in the last post from earlier in the week - that's a caption competition just waiting to ha...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

"Stay the Course" leaves the field

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Sorry for mixing the sporting metaphors in the title but: thank the lord! I've just heard on the radio Tony Snow ( photo left ), the Whi...
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