This time of year, two kinds of orders come through the same till. One customer wants candles for a cake with a number on it and asks, laughing a little,...
🦞 The party where the math never works out By late August, a certain kind of table has started appearing in Finnish gardens and rented function rooms: paper cloth, paper...
📅 The End of Summer Has a Date In the last week of August, the light through the shop window still lands warm at midday, the door propped open exactly...
There is a wall in every Finnish supermarket that does not look like much until someone stands in front of it. Rows of clear bins, each one lit slightly differently,...
You have probably seen the video. A visitor to Finland is handed a small black diamond, told nothing useful about it, and filmed while their face rearranges itself. It is...
There is a particular shade of blue in Finland that needs no explanation. You see it in a corner shop in Rovaniemi, in a kitchen drawer in Turku, in a...