Home sweet home

Travelling is nice, but nothing beats sleeping in your own bed. Actually sleeping with one's husband in your own bed would beat that, but things keep getting better and better and that's going to happen tonight when Dragon gets home from his little trip. I'll write something more substantial about the trip a bit later, but now I've got more important things to write about.

Firstly just couple of things about the Kuukkeli awards. I can't speak for anyone else, but I think we did a good job with selecting worthy blogs to receive some recognition. Sure it's subjective list, it's my opinion and it's the judges' opinion - that's why we're called the judges. Yes, the awards could be done with just public voting - but that would be an entirely different thing then. It would be "the most popular" vote, not "the best" - best is always subjective. Think about the people deciding who's going to get the Nobels or the Finlandia award or the Oscars... I think the current system is good - people decide the shortlist and then there's a panel of judges who make the final selection. So we picked one blog outside of the list - so what? We did that last year too and it was hailed as bold but excellent move - this year it's suddenly somehow elitist and Helsinki-centric... For crying out loud - I don't even live in Europe, and I couldn't care less where other people live of blog from.

Anyway. Can't please them all, and that's that. At least I haven't got any nasty hatemail or deaththreats on the subject.

Actually I didn't mean to write about the awards at all, it just came out. What I consider more important, really, is gardening and I finally got united with my babies today when I picked up my lily bulbs from the post office. Bulbs are cute as buttons, and per instructions I planted them immediately - here's the glamorous photo taken by my dad to show you me in action. And of course today was the day when it started raining so I could maximise my gardening fun...

Gardening really requires patience - so little happens most of the time. I had a quick glimpse of the bulbs and now they are all tucked away again and I can only wait till I see them next time... They were sprouting a bit already so I don't think it's going to take that long for them to appear, but those tender first moments are just the best.