Colour Collage 29/2022

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Friday Bliss #200 - Kalle’s Birthday

Last Saturday we celebrated grandson Kalle’s 18th birthday having a lunch at restaurant

La Famiglia.  Sadly two families were missing at the party - the other on vacation,

the other sick. In the photo my husband’s eldest daughter Sanna and her children Kalle and Noora, 

the future mother. The baby is due in November ❤︎

I have a bit shorter haircut this summer. In the lower part DH’s daughter Milla

with her husband Timo, chef by profession and he used to work at this restaurant for four years.

I bought this white Phalaenopsis for Christmas and now it is blooming again ❤︎

It is very beautiful on the kitchen window sill and fortunately the kittens let it be. 

Anyhow it is not poisonous.

I read or listen to audiobooks every night. The audiobook offer of the summer are either 

romantic novels or detective stories. I prefer the latter. I warmly recommend the thrillers of 

Alice Feeney - they are thrilling, excellent English and readers are outstanding.

Hildur by Finnish Satu Rämö took me to exotic Iceland. Satu is married to an Icelandic guy 

and lives at the moment in Northern Iceland. Earlier Satu has written many non fiction books 

about Iceland. Then I found Spanish María Oruña’s detective stories and am now

listening to the first one.

Wishing you wonderful & sunny July days!

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Summer Plantings in Lime & Purple

Today I’ll share some of my summer plantings. On the terrace low staircase I have three

big pots that I painted matt black last summer. The pots were brown plastic, old and ugly, 

but turned out looking like new. The paint has not come off and looks flawlewss.

Our house is from the 50s and the plinth is relatively high. When DH built the terrace

20 years ago, we changed one narrow window to a door and two staircases were needed. 

There is a white fence around and also a gate. When we had dogs they stayed there, 

but it is of course not safe for the kittens. I have balcony boxes to add green ’inside’. 

There are also trellis for room feeling and for climbers.

Our terrace faces to the west and is VERY hot in the afternoon, even till 40C in the sun.

That is why we have two parasols. The base of the smaller parasol is camouflaged 

with a flowerpot and stones.

At the shadow end of the terrace there are growing Astrantia, ferns, Ligularia przewalskii 

and Iris pseudacorus. At the other end there are some clematis that are very late this year.

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; 

to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

- Henry James

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Behind the Scenes in Finnish National Theatre

The topic of Makrotex this week is BEHIND THE SCENES. 

I revert to a post of March 2020 (just before the covid outbreak) when I visited 

Finnish National Theatre. We were a small group who toured the backgrounds of 

all the four scenes and heard about the upcoming renovation project. 

The tour was interesting, because usually you concentrate in the upcoming performance 

and don't give a thought to things behind the scenes - how lights and scenes change, 

who builds and organizes in the background. 

Finnish National Theatre is an impressive granite building, completed in 1902.

The Main Stage has nearly 700 seats. This fabulous ceiling fresco was painted by 

Yrjö Ollila (1887-1932) and his team. It is called Thalia’s Mirror and represents 

many of the theatre’s actors and actresses.

Behind the curtain there was a rattling-looking rope battery, which is manually pulled 

to raise and lower the prop fabrics. The spaces were full of stuff, wires, and certainly also dust, 

not suitable for an asthmatic at all. The actors had to change their outfits in shockingly 

small corners - but everything seemed to work great and the stage assistants keep an eye on everything. 

Our group in the labyrinthine and messy narrow gangways and stairs was well guided by 

stage assistant Tuomas Wellamo, the mustached gentleman in the picture. 

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