… and that was it for the snow in December. Came for a bit, not even a centimeter in most place and went away after 3 days and it’s been rain (and sometimes sleet) since. This is definitely not the type of December I like.

I have to go up north next week and it’s a good -20C there and I absolutely do not want.

Second thought, I’m not ready for winter yet.

I’ve written about it before but let me talk about it again – eventually Finnish weather changes your brain, eventually you develop a thing in your head that accepts that the weather can (and will) be crappy for weeks on end you just have to go for an hour’s walk no matter what it’s like outside.

Isn’t physics a strange thing – ice is slippery but add a thin layer of water on top of that ice and it’s fifteen times as slippery!

So this thing called, “spring” – what is it exactly?

It’s around 4C and raining as I’m writing this. It’s mid-December. The weather’s just been crazy… 

Rain in any other place would be annoying but it’s all about that proper summer experience.

Remember early July when we still thought that the heat wave wasn’t going to last?

Remember the days when we thought the heat wave was only going to last a week or two?