Krapu w 6 - Murhasunnuntai / Murder Sunday

MURHASUNNUNTAI

Nainen on uupunut, vanhuuden kuihduttamat käsivarret ovat maitohapoilla viikosta toiseen. Lunta tulla tupruttaa näköjään ikuisesti. Eilen oli kutsuttava apuun kaksi virolaista nuortamiestä, mutta silti jäi lumenluontia naisellekin. Nyt nainen vetää villasukat jalkaan ja kaataa itselleen mojovan ginipaukun. 

On murhasunnuntain aika. Ikisuosikkeihin kuuluvat tietysti Poirot ja Marlowe, vaikka jälkimmäinen onkin perinteinen etsivätyyppi: kovaksi keitetty, tupakoiva ja ginissä uiva - mutta ah niin hurmaava etenkin Casablancassa, jonka vuorosanat nainen osaa melkein ulkoa.

Rähjäinen Columbo on myös briljantti: aivoiltaan partaveitsenterävä, vaikka kulkee mauttomassa ja ryppyisessä poplarissaan. Mutta kaikki tuo on tietoisesti harhaanjohtavaa. Tekeytyessään tyhmäksi, Columbo saa nalkkiin kaikki itseään voittamattomina pitävät rikkaat murhaajat.

100 sanan krapuhaastetta vetää SusuPetal. 

Viikon 6 krapusanat ovat perinteinen, mauton, harhaanjohtava.

Crab is a 100 word Finnish writing challenge. 

Words for the week 6 are traditional, tasteless, misleading.

MURDER SUNDAY

The old woman is exhausted, her withered arms suffer from lactic acid from week to week. It will be snowing forever, it seems. Yesterday, two Estonian young men had to be called in for help, but there was still left snow for her to shovel. Now she pulls on the wool socks and pours herself a hefty gin shot. 

It's Murder Sunday. Her eternal favorites include Poirot and Marlowe, of course, although Marlowe is a traditional type of detective: hard-boiled smoker who swims in gin - but he is ah so charming, especially in Casablanca, whose lines the woman knows almost by heart. 

Shabby Columbo is also brilliant: razor-sharp, though dressed in the tasteless and wrinkled overcoat. But all that is deliberately misleading. By pretending to be stupid, Columbo gets trapped all the rich murderers, who think they are invincible.

On Internet you can find many quotes of Marlowe:
"I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."
- Marlowe, The Big Sleep

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Friday Bliss #177 - Finnish National Ballet 100 Years

Violetta Keller from Germany as Black Swan & the Chinese Jun Xia as Prince Siegfried. 

Photo: Roosa Oksaharju

Photo: Opera and Ballet

This year, the Finnish National Ballet is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Its first performance was seen on January 17, 1922, when the ballet master George Gé brought his own version of the Swan Lake. Gé had become acquainted with the Swan Lake in St. Petersburg before the Russian Revolution. The National Ballet has begun its anniversary with the same ballet, with choreography by David McAllister of Australia. The world of the ballet is very international: today 2/3 of the 76 dancers are of foreign origin. HERE you find a list of all the dancers, in case you wish to take a peek.

Japanese Hanako Matsune as White Swan. Photo: Roosa Oksaharju

Unfortunately, due to the coronavirus situation, all performances have been canceled until the end of February. But the gala premiere was televised without audience on Saturday, January the 29th. The black and white swans are normally performed by the same dancer, but in the live broadcast, the dual role was divided between these two dancers: Hanako Matsune from Japan and Violetta Keller from Germany. As a result of the exceptional arrangement, there were also two princes: Michal Krčmář from the Czech Republic danced with Matsune and Jun Xia from China with Keller.

Czech Michal Krčmář & Hanako Matsune. Photo: Roosa Oksaharju

Photo: Opera and Ballet

I watched the performance on TV, of course it didn’t compare to a live show, that I have seen years ago at our old opera house. I think the staging and costumes were wonderful and the pair of Violetta Keller & Jun Xia were dazzling. All the photos of the post are from the press.

Choreography: David McAllister
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Conductor: Bejamin Pope, Matthew Rowe
Production, costumes: Gabriela Týlešová

Valaistus: Kalle Ropponen

I wanted to have white flowers in this post, bought even white tulips, 

but they looked so ridiculously small. That is why I chosed these double eustomas

from February last year as their flowers look like ballet skirts to me.

Photo: Opera and Ballet

I have always loved the dance of the little swans!

See a performance on Youtube by KCB Dancers. 

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February Thoughts

Kindness is like snow—it beautifies everything it covers.

- Kahlil Gibran

In Southern Finland February started with frost & thick snow blanket. The trees are covered with snow and look very decorative to me. Yesterday it was around minus 8 C and I enjoyed the sunshine and pure snow and took a few photos during my walk in the neighbourhood. The above tree is probably Aesculus hippocastanum and underneath Salix fragilis ’Bullata’.

The beginning of February is also the time of the traditional Runeberg pastries. They are sweet and rich in calories, but taste oh so good! On top there is an icing sugar round with rasperry jam and the pastry is flavoured with rum. The name comes after our national poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804-1877), whose birthday is celebrated the 5th of February. According to the history his wife Fredrica used to bake them and today every commercial bakery has their own secret recipe. HERE one recipe in English.

I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? 

And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, 

go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.

- Lewis Carrol

I pray this winter be gentle and kind—a season of rest from the wheel of the mind.

- John Geddes

There is an elementary school nearby and I photographed

these sweet girls on the empty street.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

- Albert Camus

Well, I love summer more than winter, there is no doubt about that!

Wishing you bright winter days.

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Lovely Colors!

 

Makrotex asks for LOVELY COLORS.

I turned to my archive and chose this tulip bouquet from last January.

January is the best time of year for gym owners. You all come. It's great! And then, by Valentine's Day, you're not coming in anymore. David Kirsch
Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/january-quotes_2

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