Makrotex Challenge - Plastic

Plastic is a good servant but a bad master, could you say so?

It is impossible to imagine modern life without different plastics. 

Personally I want to buy and use as little plastics as possible - or at least recycle.

We are all aware what plastic waste does to the oceans and environment.

This green snake like thing is Sissi’s newest toy. The ball rolls inside the snake,

does not run away. Our Cat Queen is very fond of this!

 Read more: GREENPEACE

"Right now an estimated 12.7 million tonnes of plastic 

– everything from plastic bottles and bags to microbeads – 

end up in our oceans each year. That’s a truck load of rubbish a minute."

// MAKROTEX CHALLENGE / Plastic - muovi

About Finnish Libraries

As you know I read a lot. Most of my reading is borrowed from libraries.

The Helmet Libraries of the Helsinki region function so smoothly: 
I can reserve books to my nearest library, check online when they are ready to be picked, 

the library even sends me an e-mail. All this service is for free.

Here are the customers' reservations ready to be picked.

A person’s alias distinguishes the own books and keeps privacy intact.

Under the Library Act, every Finnish municipality must provide library services 

that meet certain standards. Public library services, as all other public services, must be equally accessible to everyone. All basic services are free of charge for all users.

Libraries are these days called ’citizens’ living rooms’ 

- or, along with the increased immigration to Finland, ‘multicultural living rooms’.

Some facts found online by Ministry of Education and Culture, year 2016:

Population 5,5 million

738 libraries

140 mobile libraries

2 million borrowers

50 million library visits

68 million book loans

45 000 eBooks

My photos are from an ordinary local library. It is a big functional building, 

not extravagant as the brand new OODI Central Library - see my post HERE.

Nor has it ancient architectonic flair or decorations or charm like

National Library of Finland.

But I was content: had a coffee and came home with seven new books!

// MOSAIC MONDAY

Color Collage

Color Collage 6/2019

Friday Bliss #21 - Delicious & Classic

Now it is time for this delicious classic:

Runebergin torttu - Runebergstårta -

a pastry flavored with almonds and arrack or rum.

The name comes from Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804–1877) who, according to legend, 

regularly enjoyed this pastry with punsch for breakfast. 

I wrote in 2017 more under the title Poet and his pastry.

I’m so sorry - my white parrot tulips stayed in bud longer than expected.

Hopefully they open beautifully some day!

 Then it has finally been time for this literary classic:

Mihail Bulgakov - Master i Margareta!

The book has been awaiting in my bookshelves for over 15 years...

I really enjoyed this fantasy and satire.

Wishing you a good start to February!

- riitta

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