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Blog postAn oldie today.
This photo is from 2007. My partner and I took took our then only dog Benny for a week long holiday in Scotland. It’s still one of my favourite holidays. I love travelling with dogs, and Scotland is very dog friendly. We had no trouble finding accommodation, and there are so many beautiful walks. One of the evenings, we almost lost Benny in the garden of our hotel when he spotted a rabbit or hare - it was too dark to see - and started chasing it. A Jack Russell Terrier -
Blog postI mentioned Metallica just last week, but they haven’t actually featured with a song yet.
I’m not the biggest Metallica fan, and I don’t really have a favourite song from them - although I love ‘Whiskey In the Jar’, but that’s not their song. I share my life with a man whose favourite band is Metallica, so I can’t avoid them, and over the years, I have learned to enjoy their music. I even went to see them once, and they are totally amazing at what they do.
So here they are, one -
Blog postFaith, hope and charity.
I should probably save this photo for Christmas time, but it’s been on my mind.
I took this when leaving Finland after my Christmas holidays. These lights decorate the windows of Kokkola-Pietarsaari airport at Christmas time, and they are very special. You only see these lights in the Pietarsaari region or in the windows of people with a connection to that
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Blog postI’m going to stick with the Finnish theme for now.
I’ve never seen Apocalyptica although I have it on good authority that they are an excellent live band and nice guys. I was supposed to see them in Glasgow two years ago, on the anniversary tour of this very album, but the weather put a stop to those plans. That week, parts of Ireland got over one metre of snow, a quantity this country is not used to or built for at all. Getting to Dublin to get a flight was impossible, and it would ha -
Blog postNew year, new date. I am amazed I manage to type 2020 in the title!
Frost.
I’m just back from two weeks in Finland. For a while, it looked like it wasn’t going to be a white Christmas, and unfortunately, Christmas Eve - when Finns celebrate Christmas - was still slushy and dull. Then, on Christmas Day, the temp
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Blog postTime for one of my favourite Finnish bands.
I couldn’t pick a favourite track from this band, so I just picked whatever came up on YouTube first. These guys are good, and listening to them properly for the first time in a while, I remember just how much I enjoy vocalist Jonne Aaron’s voice.
Time to pull out all my Negative albums then and give them a spin.
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Blog postNatural beauty.
This little fella was stuck inside our bedroom recently.
This was late November, so not really a time when you are used to seeing butterflies in Ireland. I have no idea where he came from, but he was frantically flapping in an effort to get outside, but he couldn’t get through the glass. My efforts to direct him towards an open window or to catch him inside a towel
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Blog postMy favourite Christmas song. It always lets me down. Not the song because I obviously love it, but the fact that this is my favourite always announces to any Irish person I am talking to that I am not, in fact, Irish at all.
You see, as good as any Irish person I know, at least in my age group, will proudly state that ‘Fairytale of New York’ is their favourite Christmas song. That’s fine, and it’s an excellent song, but it’s not my favourite. It’s probably my second favourite, but nobo -
Blog postTime for a complaint. Well, not so much a complaint, but I need to point this out.
I’m not going to mention any names, but I recently stayed in this… Hotel is not the right word. Accommodation. The room had curtains that were way too small to cover the windows. The room was on the ground floor. The windows overlooked the street. How are people supposed to sleep like that?
I was travelling with my sister, and we had to get inventive. With no bed throw or blanket in the room, we h -
Blog postI love, love, love, LOVE this song.
It’s one of my all time favourites. I mean, how easy is this to relate to? No? OK. Must be just me then.
I love this song so much I included it in a scene in Yours Remotely, where The Remotes covered this. I wish I could hear that version, but until someone turns my books into a movie, it’s probably not going to happen. If anybody is interested in doing so, hit me up!
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Blog postThe Roundhouse in Camden, London.
It’s Friday 13th! Today’s blog post has nothing to do with that though.
As you probably know if you follow my blog, I see a lot of bands, which means I see a lot of music venues. Most of them are tiny, scrubby and stinky - which is fine by me - but some of them are so posh I don’t even know what to do with them. Unfortunately, with bigger venues co
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Blog postI originally bought this album for my partner, thinking he would like it. A music store owner from my hometown in Finland, who knows both of us well, recommended this to my other half, but I have all but claimed it to myself now. I love the entire album. I’ve said it before, but in case you have forgotten - I’m a sucker for atmosphere, and this album is overflowing with it!
Add to that great riffs, catchy choruses and powerful vocals, and I’m sold.
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Blog postIt’s Finland’s Independence Day today. We are 102 years old.
I thought it was only fair to share a photo from my beautiful homeland. This was taken last summer, and I don’t expect it to look quite like this when I get over for Christmas next week, but isn’t it beautiful? That’s what Finland looks like in the summer - all blues and greens. In the winter, it’s all about the whites.
I guess that explains the colours on our flag.
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Blog postI don’t listen to a lot of solo artists. I don’t know why. I guess it’s just the type of music they make. It’s hard to make enough noise to please my ears with only one person on stage!
I have always been fond of Bryan Adams though, and it’s mostly because he is excellent with the one instrument I’m a real sucker for - a good singing voice. He has just that kind of voice that makes me weak at the knees and the hair stand up on my arms, and he sings with such emotion.
I also reme -
Blog postI have gifted dogs.
Time for a slight brag.
These are some of the rosettes my dogs have won in agility over the last few years. They are a talented bunch and blissfully forgiving of their slow handler who keeps messing things up and giving unclear signals.
I am somewhat lucky in that I prefer little dogs to large - although I absolutely adore dogs of all shapes and sizes - and get t
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Blog postI am not what you would call a Damien Rice fan, but I really like this song.
As far as I can recall, I found this song through the movie Closer - an excellent film which I totally recommend if you haven’t seen it yet. There is something so touching about this song, something a little eerie and beautiful at the same time.
I once had a great conversation about Damien Rice with a musician who was a much bigger fan of him than I am. It was a mild late evening in December, just a few -
Blog postAt Ardverikie Estate.
This was taken a long time ago. It was May 2014 if I remember correctly, on a family holiday in Scotland.
You may recognise the castle behind me. It’s Ardverikie, which doubled up as Glenbogle in the TV series Monarch of the Glen. It’s one of my favourites, even after all these years, and it was magical to see some of the locations even though I have to admit
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Blog postCome on, it was always going to have to be done. I can’t believe I didn’t do this last year.
Doesn’t everyone love this song? Right?
Enjoy!
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Blog postPoetry in Sheffield.
I was in Sheffield recently. This photo is not from my recent visit but from a previous one. Seeing it again reminded me just how cool the idea is - poetry on the side of a building.
i wonder if I’ll ever be famous enough to have my writing immortalised on a wall like that…
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Blog postI listen to a lot of Feeder while writing. It’s something to do with the feel of their songs, and this was particularly true during the writing of Yours Remotely. To be honest, Feeder is one of the bands I imagined The Remotes sounding like. Why Feeder hasn’t achieved such world domination is beyond me, but I guess that’s the real world we live in.
Feeder always has beautiful lyrics, and this song is no exception - so heart-felt.
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Etaisesti Sinun (Finnish Edition)
Jul 11, 2017
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Pamela Harju
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