Monday, June 17

The cat woke us both up in the middle of the night and that, together with the fact that it was freezing cold, kept us in bed later than usual.

I woke about 9:00 and Auo woke a few minutes later. We shivered our way through breakfast and then waited for the sun to come out. At 11:00 the weather started to clear, and I dug a fern from the bank of the river-like ditch and replanted it in the middle of the garden, to replace the dead bush.

I then taped the windows in the outdoor kitchen so that I could paint them without creating a mess that will irritate me for years. At 12:30 Auo and I went to Tirmo to see if they had any pizzas, and to work out the week’s dinner possibilities.

Walking round the shop the possibilities seemed almost non-existent. There we no pizzas, and no frozen food of any sort. I bought one of the two packets of mashed potato available and two ice-creams, and we keft.

Now we are on the ferry back to Sundö. The sky is darkening again.

I will finish taping the windows, phone Jutta, and make sausage and mash. As soon as we have finished eating, it will start raining and within ten minutes there will be a downpour.

The rain will pour down for the rest of the day and no painting will get done. Naa will arrive back from Helsinki in the early evening after a bus ride from Kamppi to Borgå, and a car ride with Johan from there. We will sit in the cold until bedtime.