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Some Moomins I’ve seen this past week

Saint John city market in the evening #saintjohnnb #uptownsaintjohn #newbrunswickcanada #citymarket #sjcitymarket (at Saint John City Market) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl7mtdouDRP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Event: Original Farmer's Market (City Market)

Original Farmer’s Market is back for another season. Thanks to all for sharing your Beauty. Look at the Tiny Mini Honey Bears on the shelf.

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My favorite street downtown…. Blake Street

Daylight ending. °•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°• #sunset #daylight #barreiro #mercado #boulevard #avenue #citymarket (em Mercado 1º de Maio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiA4APFseIX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I'm pretty sure Finland is lying about their Swedish-speaker statistics

(Having begun to appeal to Norwegian-speakers earlier today, I can probably do a dual post in English and fluent Swedish too.)

I was on vacation in Finland in August 2021, a very, very rare feat for a Norwegian (as older Norwegians still have PTSD from near-weekly depressing socio-realistic Finnish movies airing in the 80's), even more so when the Norwegian gov very strongly told people not to go on vacation. One of my many goals on the journey was: How many Finns could actually speak Swedish, and where?

The results were rather… disappointing.

In Vaasa, most major facilities had staff that spoke or understood Swedish very well. Scandic Hotel, Tropiclandia, K-Citymarket Kivihaka, and the Shell station that saved me from critical dehydration at 01:30. The Lidl staff however did not.

In Seinäjoki just 60km inland, I quickly realised it wasn't even worth it to try speaking Swedish except at the hotel reception. The pesäpallo kiosk and Hesburger spoke good enough English; the café at Megakeskus couldn't even that.

The less said about PowerPark and the nearby Harpa-Halli, the better. I had managed to mismount the carousel wagon stick thing, slid around, and hung on for dear life. I could've possibly died that day. Also got bruises from rodeo, and the forest elf didn't show up. No one there understood Swedish either.

Åbo (Turku) was also a place where I didn't try Swedish, mostly because I spoke to almost no one that day. At Moominworld, the backpack handlers spoke perfect Swedish with a Swedish accent, whereas the icecream kiosk staffer looked at me like I was from Jupiter and started making something at random before I corrected him in American English.

Viking Line Åbo-Stockholm had no problems with Swedish, of course.

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Jag var på semester i Finland i augusti 2021, ett högst mycket ovanlig prestation för en norrmann (eftersom äldra norrmänn framledes har PTSD från "Finsk fjernsynsteater" på 80:talet), även mera så när den norska regering stärkt frarådade folk emot att åka på semester. Ett av mina mål på resan var: Hur många finnar kunde värkligen prata svenska, och var?

Resultaterna var nogså… oimponerande.

I Vaasa (Vasa) hadde dom flesta stora faciliteterna ansatta som talade eller förstod svenska mycket bra. Scandic Hotel, Tropiclandic, K-Citymarket Kivihaka, och Shell-stationen som räddade mig från allvarlig dryckvattenmangel kl. 01.30. Lidl-affären gjorde däremot inte det.

I Seinäjoki just 6 mil innomlands, innsåg jag snabbt att det inte även var värdt innsatsen att prata svenska, med unntag av hotellreceptionen. Pesäpallokiosken och Hesburger pratade bra nog engelska; kaféen på Megakeskus kunde inte även det.

Jo mindra man kan säga om PowerPark och den närliggande Harpa-Halli, jo bättre. Jag hadde presterat att felmontéra karusellstang-tingesten, skled runt, och hållt fast för hela mitt jävlere liv. Jag kunde fullt möjligt ha dödats den dagen. Fick också blåmärkor från rodeo, och skogsälvan dukkade aldrig upp. Ingen där förstod svenska hällre.

Åbo var också en plats var jag inte försökade svenska, i huvudsak eftersom jag pratade med nästen ingen den dagen. I Muminvärlden pratade dom säckskap-ansvariga perfekt svenska med svensk aksent; honom i kassan i glasskiosken stirrade på mig som om jag var från Jupiter och började laga nått helt tilfällig, för jag korrigerade honom på amerikansk engelska.

Viking Line Åbo-Stockholm hadde inga problem med svenska, självklart.

You ever think about how you really have no way of telling whether someone who's from a different culture than yours is simply from A Different Culture, or personally a deeply weird person?

Like somewhere out there is a tourist who visited Finland and had a great time having her back blown out by an exotic local who showed her cool and splendid things of his culture and that was all a wonderful and enlightening experience

but really it was your neighbour Jere who smokes the worst weed in the entire Uusimaa region, is completely wrong in his adamant belief that pine bark is perfectly edible and can be pulled off the tree just like that for a convenient snack, is the only person in the world to practice his personal religion which involves weekly food sacrifices to the house elves, and shoplifted his shoes from Citymarket.

The seductive power of IKEA....after my move I find myself going back there just to aimlessly wander through the display apartments...making up stories for the people who would live in a house like this...

I've been to Ikea three times this month, once to buy a shelf and rest of the time to buy hooks I could have gotten from the local citymarket, but the allure of the display rooms......

Saw this My little pony coloring book at Citymarket today, it was 7,10 euros.

I kinda forgot to take photos of some of the pictures you can color since i was so amazed that it has Opaline stickers :O . I don't think i have seen stickers of her before this anywhere (i might remember wrong though).

Also Sparky stickers, can't remember if i have seen those either.

November/December: Sunrise at CityMarket in Dillon, Thanksgiving dinner and dessert prepared (mostly) by Eva and Korey, Christmas Day snowboarding at Steamboat with Jordyn, a day riding at Breckenridge, Glory our winter seasonal office dog!

Savon Sanomat was among the papers carrying an STT news agency report that one in two Finnish mortgage borrowers has reduced spending on daily expenses or switched to buying more affordable products due to rising prices and interest rates.

The figure is from a survey released by Danske Bank which also showed that about half have had to reduce expenditure on non-essential consumption, such as clothing purchases and restaurant meals.

"Some households have been disproportionately affected by the rise in prices and interest rates. In the big picture, however, Finnish mortgage borrowers are doing well. Although reducing everyday expenses is currently a common topic of conversation, according to the study, it affects only every second Finnish mortgage debtor," Sari Takala, Danske Bank's head of personal loan services is quoted as saying in a release.

Conducted by YouGov Finland, the survey asked respondents how they had adjusted their spending.

A quarter said that they have not had to make any changes in their finances due to rising interest rates or prices. Ten percent said that they have had to postpone the payment of some other bills. Eight percent answered that they had to rely on financial help from family members. Six percent had had to take out a new loan.

"It's good to remember that everyone has their own, personal level of inflation. If there is no room for manoeuvre in your own finances, you should find out from your bank whether, for example, an extension of the loan period or a repayment holiday would help the situation," Takala said.

Hypermarkets to the rescue?

Helsingin Sanomat looks at the possibility of hypermarkets revitalising the capital's city centre.

It notes that the idea has proven to be successful in Tampere where a Prisma hypermarket is doing well after replacing a downtown department store.

Mika Sivula, the southern Finland regional manager for Kesko, a company with about 1,800 stores in Finland and abroad, told the paper that he believes that there would be sufficient demand for a selection of hypermarkets in the centre of Helsinki.

"But the problem is that it is very challenging to find large enough business premises in the densely built-up centre," he pointed out.

One of Kesko's K-citymarkets would require nearly 10,000 square metres of retail space, preferably all under one roof. In addition, transportation connections, and access by private car, would be a key factor. In this context, HS notes the issue of frequent street works in the city centre.

City officials do not object to the idea. Helsinki's director for urban environment, Ville Lehmuskoski, told the paper, "If there's a demand for it and it's a service that's wanted, the city will try to make it easier."

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Finland's high Covid death rate

Ilta-Sanomat reports that WHO figures show Finland to have registered the largest number of Covid deaths per one million inhabitants in Europe over the past 12 months.

Lasse Lehtonen, director of diagnostics at the Helsinki Universitry Hospital HUS, pointed out that the WHO collects statistical data from every country in the same way, with all persons who tested positive for coronavirus infections who have died within 30 days of infection being counted as Covid deaths.

Lehtonen considers WHO's statistical method "rough and simple", but the best available to make global comparisons.

"It is not the truth, above all it describes variations among the countries," Lehtonen said. "It does not measure the absolute number of coronavirus deaths, but how different countries rank in relation to each other."

The method used by Finland's Institute of Health and Welfare (THL) is based on a screening of death certificates which specify the coronavirus as the actual cause of death, or when it is recorded as a contributing factor.

Over the past year, more than 3,000 deaths from coronavirus infections have been recorded in Finland, which put the country at the top of the per capita list in Europe.

The overall total number of deaths attributed to coronavirus in Finland exceeded 10,000 at the beginning of July 2023. The total number in Finland is now clearly higher than in Norway and Denmark, which are roughly the same size in terms of population, but also clearly more densely populated.

Still cold, still wet

Iltalehti told readers that the latest monthly weather forecast calls for colder than usual weather for the first two full weeks of November.

Temperatures are expected to be about 1 to 3 degrees Celsius cooler than usual in large parts of the country. In southern Finland, temperatures will be more or less normal for the time of year.

Next week, starting 6 November, more rain than usual is likely to be seen in the south and in areas in the east.

"Unusually rainy weather can be expected in the southern and eastern parts of the country, while in the north precipitation should be less than average," the paper quotes Foreca meteorologist Joonas Koskela as saying.

The week starting 13 November, almost the entire country will see more precipitation than usual. The weather during the week starting 20 November is expected to bring average seasonal temperatures and precipitation.

There are signs that the final week of the month will again be warmer than average.