“I still blog, therefore, I still am”
1337 Post Celebration @ Rantings Of A Third Kind
For some reason, Word Press decided 1337 posts is a landmark and therefor I am celebrating once again 😉
Thanks to You, all my followers and readers for keeping me going!
Keep calm and keep on blogging!
Gun
Celebrating Valentine’s Day!
“Just remember if we get caught, you’re deaf and I don’t speak English”
Me and My Shadow
It was nineteen eighty-five
When I hitched a ride
Ever since that time
We have been tied
Like sugar and spice
Abbott and Costello
And what have you
I am still quite amazed
And feeling totally graced
That someone would stare at my face
For thirty odd years straight
So thanks for all this time, sweetheart
Lets try to make it to the next part
And add another thirty to the cart
After all the most important thing
Which makes you want to sing
It’s good to have that one person
Who will support you without a reason
No matter how serious
Or delirious
Life gets
I will bet
You will still be the one
Who I can rely on
To go absolutely
And completely
Bonkers with
Ain’t that a hit!
Posted in the Daily Photo series
Poetry & Photography
“I started a Shrove Tuesday and then by Ash Wednesday something had happened and I had a bottle of beer” Mick McCarthy
Shrove Tuesday (Daily Photo)
Shrove Tuesday (known in some countries as Pancake Tuesday or Pancake day) is a day in February or March preceding Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent), which is celebrated in some countries by consuming pancakes. In others, especially those where it is called Mardi Gras or some translation thereof, this is a carnival day, and also the last day of “fat eating” or “gorging” before the fasting period of Lent.
In Finland, Shrovetide took on a new meaning after the Reformation started by the German Martin Luther (1483-1546) from ca 1520 on. In the rural calendar, it marked the date by which many springtime tasks and duties, like spinning etc, should be brought to conclusion.
Nowadays Shrovetide is more of a secular festival season, a time for winter sport enthusiasts as well as for feasts of fatty foods, although the Lenten fasting ritual is not practiced among the Finnish Evangelical-Lutheran Church.
On Shrove Tuesday, children in many kindergartens and schools are taken to spend the day tobogganing, ice skating or cross-country or downhill skiing.
Popular Finnish Shrovetide desserts are Shrove buns, almond paste and whipped cream-filled sweet buns, which you will find sold in every bakery and store at Shrovetide, and Finnish oven-baked pancake served with jam. In Finland, the habit of eating Shrove buns can be dated back to the 17th century, but this tradition is even older in Sweden, where it originally came from.
Posted in Celebration, National Day, Food
Finnish National Anthem
“Our land, our land, our fatherland,
Sound loud, O name of worth!
No mount that meets the heaven’s band.
No hidden vale, no wavewashed strand.
Is loved, as is our native North. Our own forefathers’ earth.
Thy blossom, in the bud laid low,
Yet ripened shall upspring.
See! From our love once more shall grow
Thy light, thy joy, thy hope, thy glow!
And clearer yet one day shall ring The song our land shall sing.”
Johan Ludvig Runeberg
Runeberg torte: In honour of the Finnish poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804–1877)
Runeberg torte is a Finnish pastry flavored with almonds and arrack or rum and it weighs about 100 grams. Raspberry jam inside a sugar ring is commonly placed on top of the tart.
The torte got its name from the Finnish poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804–1877) who, according to legend, enjoyed the torte with punsch for every breakfast. Runeberg tortes are typically eaten only in Finland and are generally available in stores from the beginning of January to Runeberg’s birthday on February 5.
Delicious!
Happy National Tea Month!
“Enjoy life sip by sip, not gulp by gulp” The Minister of Leaves, The Republic of Tea
Tea, Earl Grey, Hot
Slow down
Listen
To the world
Around
Forget
That strife
Just Enjoy
Without a ploy
The simple pleasures,
Purest treasures
Of life
A cup of tea,
Plain and simple
Easy as
Your A, B, C
Soon you’ll see
A dimple
On your cheek
Will sneak
Breathe in
Breathe out
Relinquish
All doubt
Nothing to it
You can do it
Relax a while
It is no guile
Soon enough
The moment
That should have
Forever lasted
Has passed
You are back
On track
Remembering,
Hoping
The moments
Between now
And running out
To the
wide open
Would last
Longer than
A token
Celebrating “Name Day”
Posted in humour, celebration
“Through the grayest of stones I’ll go”
What’s in a Name?
Given Name GUNILLA
GENDER: Feminine
USAGE: Swedish
Swedish variant of GUNHILD
OTHER LANGUAGES: Gunnhildr (Ancient Scandinavian), Gunhild (Danish), Gunhild, Gunnhild (Norwegian), Gunhilda (Scandinavian)
The meaning of the name “Gunilla” is: “Battle maiden”
We Scandinavians have the funny habit of celebrating our “name days”. The names are dotted into the calendar and for each day, several names have their celebration. Today, on the thirtieth of January, is my name day: Gunilla. Also been called Gun, Gunu and Nilla. Not to mention the very popular “Gorilla”, back on the lower levels in school!
I found this very funny stuff on the world wide web, as if the name would define the character, but still some of it fits to my personality.
Enjoy!
Who is she?
Friendly and communicative, Gunilla has plenty of charm and magnetism. A sociable extrovert, she is pleasant, cheerful and very likable. She was born to express herself, interact with others and have a good time. She seeks the company of others and enjoys exchange and discussion, even though it is often a one-sided affair.
Gunilla goes through phases where, like the grasshopper in the fable she is inclined to an easy life of having fun and enjoying the pleasures of this world – which naturally entails a certain amount of dissipation… followed by other periods where she imitates the ant, bravely facing life´s challenges and capable of putting up with constraints as well as considerable effort, discipline and determination.
Gunilla is a concrete, materialistically orientated woman, who never loses sight of the financial side of life. She would therefore make a great business woman – persuasive and perspicacious, courageous and wise.
Encourage her creative streak and to make the most of her gift for communication through music, singing, theatre, literature or languages. It is important to compensate for her tendency to be fickle and spread herself too thinly by inculcating the value of order, method and discipline; she would benefit from experiencing the satisfaction of a job well done. Gunilla is endearing and… a real chatterbox.
What does she like?
As much as she enjoys the bright lights of society and the company of others, Gunilla nevertheless appreciates peace and quiet, security and stability. While she can appear sophisticated at times, she is more inclined to all that is natural, simple, sober and genuine. Security isn´t necessarily synonymous with routine, and Gunilla is a highly imaginative woman.
Posted in Achievements, Anniversary
“Don’t procrastinate. If you want to blog, then blog.” Fritz Chery
One Year Blog Anniversary: Rantings of a Third Kind
“Dear Reader,
A blog about everything and nothing.
Fiction, fact, poetry, odes, homages, photography.
Humour, yet some serious thoughts.
And it’s all done in the best possible taste!
Enjoy!
Gun Roswell”
It is one year since I wrote those words as I started the blog: Rantings Of A Third Kind. A thousand and one hundred and forty three posts later I am happily celebrating my one year anniversary for this blog.
Thank you all my followers and readers for the continued support and interest in “everything and nothing” as the blog tag line suggests. “It’s all done in the best possible taste” and hoping to continue along the same line!
Keep calm and keep reading Rantings!
In honour of today and the anniversary, I am reposting my first ever blog post:
Let the rantings begin!/A quick trip to the supermarket
Posted in Events
Poetry, Photography, Humour, Quotations, Song
Inspired by the Victoria and Albert Museum “Shoes: Pleasure and Pain” exhibit:
Blog of the same
Exhibit ticket information
“A woman with good shoes is never ugly” Coco Chanel
Celebrating 12 Days of Shoes!
Shoes, shoes, shoes
I see lots of shoes
Shoes over here
And shoes over there
Oh take a look
At the pretty slingback
In the window there!
So many shoes
So little time!
It’s… Shoe Time!
Posted in Holiday Celebration
Poetry & Photography
“Follow your passions, believe in karma, and you won’t have to chase your dreams; they will come to you.”
Bread and Circuses or Happy New Year!
Bread and Circuses
For any and all purposes
Lights and fireworks
Maybe with some quirks
No time to waste
It is time to celebrate
Let us all unite
Leave our differences, aside
The New Year
We hail
Following
A different trail
Past and present
Already spent
To the future
From now on
We all ascend
“I still blog, therefore, I still am”
1000 Post Celebration @ Rantings Of A Third Kind
Today is a great day and certainly a time for celebration!
I have posted my 1000th post on Rantings of a Third Kind today!
Thanks to all my followers and readers for keeping me going!
Keep calm and keep on blogging!
Gun
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