Summer Blossoms

 

June nature in our garden:

Currently Reading

 

I’m currently reading multiple books as usual, including:

The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley

Kasvien salainen elämä by Riitta Angervuo, Aarre Leskinen

Midwinter Murder by Agatha Christie

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Piggies

 

Mooncake and Tea

 

A Misbehaving Trio

 

Salad From the Garden

 

Radish, lettuce and tomatoes.

June Begins

 

Glowing effect done with the free Snapseed app!

Our Garden in May

 

What I Read in 2023

 

Novels, novellas, collections

Mo Xiang Tong Xiu “Heaven Official's Blessing, vol.1” [China] (re-reading)

Rebecca Roanhorse “Trail of Lightning” [USA]

Ekaterine Xia “Phoenix Chosen” [USA, Taiwan]

Иван Антонович Ефремов “Сердце змеи” [Russia]

Xan van Rooyen “Silver Helix” [South Africa, Finland]

Laura Silverman “Girl Out of Water” [USA]

Martha Wells “Artificial Condition” [USA]

Stanisław Lem “Непобедимый” [Poland]

Gail Carriger “Poison or Protect” [USA]

Anu Holopainen “Yölaakso” [Finland]

Premee Mohamed “The Annual Migration of Clouds” [Canada]

Ana Mardoll “No Man of Woman Born” [USA]

Haruki Murakami “Norwegian Wood” [Japan]

Чжан Вэй «Старый корабль» [China]

Shisi “Little Mushroom: Judgment Day" [China]

Hồ Xuân Hương “Kysymyksiä kuulle” [Vietnam]

Non-fiction

Everything I Watched in 2023

 

Love Between Fairy and Devil

Here’s a list of everything I’ve watched (or finished watching) last year. As you can see I have a Chinese drama addiction I’m a very diligent learner of Chinese! :D

Series

Joy of Life (rewatch) [China]

The Silent Sea [South Korea]

AlRawabi School for Girls (rewatch) [Jordan]

Ice Fantasy [China]

Love Between Fairy and Devil [China]

A League of Nobleman [China]

Xmas Pics

New books!

 

Gifts for birds.

Another Rainy Day

 

September 1^st.

Rainy Day

 

August 30^th.

Flowers and Creatures

 August 20th.

July Flowers

 

Last year we established a mini meadow where I planted seeds of wild flowers, and of course later some local plants popped up as well! Here are some of them, from this July.

Bluebells.

Favourite Songs of 2022

Here are some of the songs I'd been obsessing with last year, in no particular order!

光亮 by Zhou Shen (China)

Zhou Shen's voice is absolutely ethereal, enthralling right away and submerging you in its beauty.

醉梦 by Lin Hai, The Untamed OST (China)

Lin Hai laoshi!! The whole soundtrack is a masterpiece, and this is my favourite, so dreamy and soothing.

Chinese Books

 

Long story short: 3 years ago I started learning Mandarin Chinese! :D I've learned over 1500 characters so far, and am almost done reading my first Chinese novel, Saye by Wu Zhe! To help me on this journey I bought two essentials: a Chinese cookbook and a huuuuge dictionary, both from AliExpress.

Harvests of 2022

 

This year's gardening didn't go as smoothly as I would have preferred (it was too hot and dry in summer), but we did manage to grow lots of food, so here are some of the things we had!

Radish from my own seeds.

Snowy December

 It snowed a loooot today, again :D 

Finally there's a chance of white xmas!!

Huge Insect Hotel in Espoo

 

Lidl Bemböle’s parking lot

Turuntie 207, 02740 Espoo