Archive for the ‘home and living’ Category
August 1st, 2007 | 
Author: micro compact home or m-ch is a prefab with potential, measuring 266cm*266cm*266cm its very compact, no big area foot-print, it costs a mere 25k-34k euros (depending on contract) 
and is currently shipped to all parts of europe (at an extra cost of course). there is also there is a low e-home version (low energy home) which includes a vertical windmill and PV-solar panels. the picture is a capture from the web page it links to. aka. not mine. check it out at: http://www.microcompacthome.com/index.php.
Posted in Friday evening in Ekenäs (Tammisaari in Finnish) archipelago while waiting for the sauna to warm up.
I spent the weekend in my familys cottage enjoying the surroundings and the stillness of nature.
The water level this weekend is the highest I’ve ever experienced out here, it’s been very high on all occations I’ve visited the archipelago this year. This however does not yet reflect from ice sheets melting on Greenland or anywhere else. It does however show us the difference in landscape we will have to become used to in the near future as the climate is warming.
The high waterlevels (according to The Baltic Sea Portal) have during July been up to 30 cm (1ft) above normal in the Bay of Finland (Hanko and Helsinki are the closest). For a short explanation about what affects sea levels, have a look at the Finnish Institute of Marine Research‘s pages.
More pictures on Flickr among them the tallship Europa we met in the archipelago.
Yesterday I bought a Bialetti Venus (6 cups) espresso maker in stainless steel, 
I have been using one of their aluminum ones (3 cups) I bought for work at home, I can’t live without atleast one proper cup of fair-trade organic espresso per day, but I felt it was time to get a proper one for the household finally.
I have been searching for a cooker that, once bought, would serve me for a long time (rest of my life if possible) and one in stainless steel I think could. Even though I haven’t cooked more than two pans I’m quite happy with the purchase and I’m sure the taste will improve even more in half a dozen pans or so. No electric cookers for me PLZ!
Sitting in Raisio a neighbouring municipality to Turku on a terrace listening to elektRoland from netgrooves.de. Nice music, drinking a worldchampion Finnish lager, KOFF, and Napoleon brandy. What a terrible life…