https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2009/08/fashion-post-from-me.html?showComment=1251391678074
Helena Halme Author: A fashion post from me
I'm a fashion addict, but I fully accept that I don't know enough to blog about it, so I usually don't. But I could not help pointing out th...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/06/rare-meme.html?showComment=1276166964969
Helena Halme Author: A rare meme
As you must know by now, if you read my blog, that although I'm always incredibly flattered and elated to be selected for one of these blogl...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/01/frozen-brain.html?showComment=1263326911282
Helena Halme Author: Frozen Brain
OK, so moving my office from the small but cosy room upstairs to The Room With A View possibly wasn't such a brilliant idea after all. At le...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2011/05/justin-cartwright-givaway.html
Helena Halme Author: Justin Cartwright giveaway
Justin Cartwright has written seven novels; he's a winner of the Whitbread Novel Award and he's been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. ...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2009/09/blog-awards.html?showComment=1254325765535
Helena Halme Author: Blog Awards
While I was away in Rome , I was blessed with not just one, but two awards. Many thanks to Wildernesschic and A Life Reclaimed for nomina...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/03/finns-are-different.html?showComment=1268142055132
Helena Halme Author: Finns are different
One explanation why we Finns are so odd must be the language. It's been cited as the second hardest language to learn after Cantonese. Havin...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/06/rare-meme.html?showComment=1276025645939
Helena Halme Author: A rare meme
As you must know by now, if you read my blog, that although I'm always incredibly flattered and elated to be selected for one of these blogl...
helena halmeauthorrarememe
https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/06/wheres-mother.html?showComment=1277294485351
Helena Halme Author: Where's Mother?
Do you find that if you are the one who usually takes the family photos there's a dearth of images of you? Having downloaded a recent crop ...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/07/plot-thickens.html?showComment=1279725877013
Helena Halme Author: The plot thickens
On Sunday as we were preparing to spend the last night of our mini break in the Babington Bubble, as Daughter called it, we had an email, co...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/05/that-old-thorny-issue.html?showComment=1275122784325
Helena Halme Author: That thorny old issue
The point of view (POV) in a novel has been something of a hobby horse of mine since I took an MA in Creative Writing a few years ago. Wheth...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2012/11/five-ways-to-do-52-diet.html
Helena Halme Author: Five tips for the 5:2 diet
I've never been a great dieter. I've tried a few of the popular ones in my time, like the no-carbs Atkins, but the only one that ever has...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2009/09/blog-awards.html?showComment=1254283677577
Helena Halme Author: Blog Awards
While I was away in Rome , I was blessed with not just one, but two awards. Many thanks to Wildernesschic and A Life Reclaimed for nomina...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/03/beckhams-in-finland.html?showComment=1268912257527
Helena Halme Author: The Beckhams in Finland
The biggest news item on TV and the various plasma screens in trams and the metro last Sunday in Finland was the arrival of Mr Beckham to Tu...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-i-came-to-be-in-england-part-10.html?showComment=1248895703320
Helena Halme Author: How I came to be in England - Part 10
I had never felt as numb as I did waiting for my flight at Heathrow on 31st of August 1981. There were just a handful of us sitting outside ...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2009/11/talking-of-obsessions.html?showComment=1259430384540
Helena Halme Author: Talking of obsessions....
I was reading a post by the incredibly talented Thatgirl39 (talented because she wrote a post when feeling under the weather which inspire...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/03/finns-are-different.html?showComment=1268139443094
Helena Halme Author: Finns are different
One explanation why we Finns are so odd must be the language. It's been cited as the second hardest language to learn after Cantonese. Havin...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/05/yet-another-wardrobe-dilemma.html?showComment=1274364129800
Helena Halme Author: Yet another wardrobe dilemma
We've been invited to a good friend's party in London this weekend. I know it'll be a trendy crowd, so I want to wear something that won't h...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/05/something-so-right.html?showComment=1273415732014
Helena Halme Author: Something so right
I thought I'd embarrass everybody by crying my eyes out at Son's Oxford University graduation ceremony, but I managed to control myself. W...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2009/07/finland-in-bun.html
Helena Halme Author: Finland in a bun
I was greeted with a lovely smell of baking when I came home tonight. As evidence that daughter is truly on the mend, she's been making cinn...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/05/yet-another-wardrobe-dilemma.html?showComment=1274336061109
Helena Halme Author: Yet another wardrobe dilemma
We've been invited to a good friend's party in London this weekend. I know it'll be a trendy crowd, so I want to wear something that won't h...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2009/12/convenience-too-far.html
Helena Halme Author: A convenience too far?
Inspired by my wonderfully funny blogging friend, Wildernesschic , I had to share with you some of my toilet observations while in Helsinki ...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-big-fat-birthday.html?showComment=1271965428013
Helena Halme Author: My Big Fat Birthday
Against all odds I survived the day of my big birthday. I'm not usually bothered about my age. Obviously I'd like to be 25, or perhaps even ...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/06/wheres-mother.html?showComment=1277152498191
Helena Halme Author: Where's Mother?
Do you find that if you are the one who usually takes the family photos there's a dearth of images of you? Having downloaded a recent crop ...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2013/01/burns-night_25.html
Helena Halme Author: Burns Night
I'm over at The Englishman blog today talking about Robert Burns. Go and have a look and have a nice weekend!
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2011/09/sunflowers-in-london.html?showComment=1315942631161
Helena Halme Author: Sunflowers in London
I've been feeling a little down lately. A few months ago I had a minor 'Big C' scare and six weeks ago I had to have something called a Con...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/04/whats-this-rubbish.html?showComment=1272459867262
Helena Halme Author: What's this rubbish?
This question has now become a joke in our house after years of being a real one posed to the children and later teenagers lounging in front...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-i-came-to-be-in-england-part-35.html?showComment=1267047842463
Helena Halme Author: How I came to be in England - Part 35
Espoo Old Church stood at the end of a country lane, set aside from a newly built shopping centre. In the distance lay high rise blocks to o...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-i-came-to-be-in-england-part-41.html
Helena Halme Author: How I came to be in England - Part 41
I sat and waited on the orange plastic seat at Liverpool Street Station for over three hours. It was a chilly February day in 1984, and as t...
helena halmehow i
https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/11/thoroughly-modern-jerry.html
Helena Halme Author: A thoroughly modern Jerry
Our little dog, the border terrier needs regular hand stripping. That may sound exciting, but I promise you there's no music involved, nor i...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2013/12/quality-books-for-only-99-cents.html
Helena Halme Author: Quality Books for Only 99 Cents!
If you're looking for critically-acclaimed contemporary fiction ebooks, a number of them are on sale now until the New Year...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/05/changes.html?showComment=1272814070503
Helena Halme Author: Changes
I've just read a post by one of my blogging friends North West London Girl in the Country about moving from the city, a life she knew, to a...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/11/to-kindle-or-not-to-kindle.html
Helena Halme Author: To Kindle or not to Kindle?
Even though I love gadgets and can only be described as an interweb addict, I've always been a book kind of girl. I love the feel and tacti...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/05/something-so-right.html
Helena Halme Author: Something so right
I thought I'd embarrass everybody by crying my eyes out at Son's Oxford University graduation ceremony, but I managed to control myself. W...
helena halmeauthorsomethingright
https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-i-came-to-be-in-england-part-31.html
Helena Halme Author: How I came to be in England - Part 31
It was raining when the plane landed at Helsinki airport. The goodbye at Heathrow with the Englishman had been even more difficult than usua...
helena halmehow i
https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/06/my-book-club.html?showComment=1276794982998
Helena Halme Author: My book club
I've been running the monthly Babington book club for a couple of years now and even though I try, I can never predict the number of peop...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2011/02/trench-coat-shopping.html?showComment=1350628866586
Helena Halme Author: Trench coat shopping
Befitting the weather in London today (rain and more rain) I'm lusting after a proper mac. It's not that I don't own one, I just down't have...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/04/i-have-nothing-to-wear.html?showComment=1272457262574
Helena Halme Author: I have nothing to wear
Further from my post about serial multi-buying , I now have a situation which anyone could have predicted: I have nothing to wear. I do hav...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2011/04/book-review-summer-without-men-by-siri.html
Helena Halme Author: Book review: The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt
Siri Hustvedt is one of my favourite authors; if she chose to write a book about watching paint dry, I'd be riveted. I know not everybody...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/11/its-all-just-game-of-battleship.html
Helena Halme Author: It's all just a game of battleship
Image from Google images I do sometimes wonder if I should give up this writing lark. I keep asking myself if I'll ever get publishe...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/06/rare-meme.html?showComment=1276257156324
Helena Halme Author: A rare meme
As you must know by now, if you read my blog, that although I'm always incredibly flattered and elated to be selected for one of these blogl...
helena halmeauthorrarememe
https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2011/08/true-story-me-as-mission-control.html?showComment=1313981319234
Helena Halme Author: A true story: me as mission control
Last night I got a call from Son, 'Have you got mummu's (Granny in Finnish) telephone number?' I was in London, he was in Sweden, with my...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/03/finns-are-different.html?showComment=1268225829763
Helena Halme Author: Finns are different
One explanation why we Finns are so odd must be the language. It's been cited as the second hardest language to learn after Cantonese. Havin...
helena halmeauthorfinnsdifferent
https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2012/11/five-ways-to-do-52-diet.html?showComment=1352718944877
Helena Halme Author: Five tips for the 5:2 diet
I've never been a great dieter. I've tried a few of the popular ones in my time, like the no-carbs Atkins, but the only one that ever has...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2011/05/eurovision-2011-with-twitter.html
Helena Halme Author: Eurovision 2011 with Twitter
First time the Englishman and I watched Eurovision after I moved to Britain was when I was heavily pregnant with our first child. Because I ...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2011/02/small-hours-at-hampstead-theatre.html?showComment=1297608392888
Helena Halme Author: Small Hours at the Hampstead Theatre
My marathon week of theatre-going started tonight with a one-woman play at Hampstead Theatre. This play, starring Sandy McDade and written ...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/03/happiness-is-new-waitrose.html?showComment=1269624470994
Helena Halme Author: Happiness Is a New Waitrose
Those of you who have been following this blog know that we are midst of a house refurbishment . Still. I won't go into the promises made to...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/11/i-think-they-saw-us-coming-at-ritz.html?showComment=1290455773340
Helena Halme Author: I think they saw us coming at The Ritz...
I'd been planning the long weekend my mother and her husband spent with us in London for a while. It was their first visit to our new place...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/04/i-have-nothing-to-wear.html?showComment=1273212314510
Helena Halme Author: I have nothing to wear
Further from my post about serial multi-buying , I now have a situation which anyone could have predicted: I have nothing to wear. I do hav...
helena halmei haveauthornothingwear
https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2009/11/why-i-can-never-wear-animal-print.html?showComment=1258972591004
Helena Halme Author: Why I can never wear animal print
Meet my grandmother, the first fashion addict I ever got to know. Now, she wasn't actually my grandmother, she was my mother's aunt. My moth...
helena halmei canauthorneverwear
https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/05/something-so-right.html?showComment=1273520292396
Helena Halme Author: Something so right
I thought I'd embarrass everybody by crying my eyes out at Son's Oxford University graduation ceremony, but I managed to control myself. W...
helena halmeauthorsomethingright
https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-big-fat-birthday.html?showComment=1271876526533
Helena Halme Author: My Big Fat Birthday
Against all odds I survived the day of my big birthday. I'm not usually bothered about my age. Obviously I'd like to be 25, or perhaps even ...
helena halmebig fatauthorbirthday
https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/02/how-i-came-to-be-in-england-part-37.html
Helena Halme Author: How I came to be in England - Part 37
I was lying face down on my bed, with my head spinning, trying to make sense of what had just happened, when I heard the front door slam shu...
helena halmehow i
https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/04/no-im-not-that-helena-halme.html?showComment=1270579768136
Helena Halme Author: No, I'm not that Helena Halme
I think I have a real life double. I've never met her, but I keep hearing about her. Last night on Twitter I was asked if I free-lance as a...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/06/my-book-club.html?showComment=1276790497261
Helena Halme Author: My book club
I've been running the monthly Babington book club for a couple of years now and even though I try, I can never predict the number of peop...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-i-came-to-be-in-england-part-43.html?showComment=1273126241963
Helena Halme Author: How I came to be in England - Part 43
The Padre wore a dark suit with a white dog collar. He was a tall man and his dark form loomed large over the door of the terraced house ...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/11/is-becoming-bag-lady-future.html?showComment=1288618154950
Helena Halme Author: Is becoming a bag lady the future?
Shopping for food has become a bit of an issue in our new London household. Or rather the lack of any such shopping. As the person who's at...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/05/something-so-right.html?showComment=1273690524869
Helena Halme Author: Something so right
I thought I'd embarrass everybody by crying my eyes out at Son's Oxford University graduation ceremony, but I managed to control myself. W...
helena halmeauthorsomethingright
https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2014/06/happy-midsummer.html?showComment=1403271175200
Helena Halme Author: Happy Midsummer!
Tomorrow all over the Nordic countries people will be celebrating Midsummer Eve. In Finland this means that good food and drink will b...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/01/frozen-brain.html?showComment=1263394356335
Helena Halme Author: Frozen Brain
OK, so moving my office from the small but cosy room upstairs to The Room With A View possibly wasn't such a brilliant idea after all. At le...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/06/life-can-be-hard.html
Helena Halme Author: Life can be hard...
Sometimes it attacks us all: desperation. You cannot but ask yourself, 'why me?'. The answer could lie in the words of some great woman or...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/04/due-to-popular-demand.html?showComment=1270933795923
Helena Halme Author: Due to Popular Demand....
Since I wrote the last episode of How I Came to be in England I've had lots of requests to carry on the story. I even had a Bring Back...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2011/02/small-hours-at-hampstead-theatre.html?showComment=1297337039848
Helena Halme Author: Small Hours at the Hampstead Theatre
My marathon week of theatre-going started tonight with a one-woman play at Hampstead Theatre. This play, starring Sandy McDade and written ...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-big-fat-birthday.html?showComment=1271873807966
Helena Halme Author: My Big Fat Birthday
Against all odds I survived the day of my big birthday. I'm not usually bothered about my age. Obviously I'd like to be 25, or perhaps even ...
helena halmebig fatauthorbirthday
https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2009/12/finnish-guilt.html?showComment=1260497130652
Helena Halme Author: Finnish guilt
I had a wonderful time in Helsinki last weekend. (You may have noticed...?) Although my family now live elsewhere, this city was home to me ...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/08/it-was-all-about-pants-last-night.html
Helena Halme Author: It was all about the pants last night
Photo by Johan Persson When I sat down at the Donmar last night I suddenly realised that I knew absolutely nothing about the play we wer...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2009/09/falling-in-love-with-rome.html?showComment=1253223717684
Helena Halme Author: Falling in love with Rome
I can't quite believe that this is my first trip to see the Eternal City. Just as well, younger and hungrier I would've never left this plac...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2014/06/david-morrissey-and-my-commute.html?showComment=1403289638105
Helena Halme Author: David Morrissey and my commute
I do love London, where else would you regularly bump into celebrities on the streets or when commuting on the famous double decker buses o...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/01/tagged.html?showComment=1262893536233
Helena Halme Author: Tagged!
Yesterday started with an amazing and utterly delightful discovery. The world-famed blogger, LibertyLondonGirl (French Vogue calls her blog...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2009/11/why-i-can-never-wear-animal-print.html
Helena Halme Author: Why I can never wear animal print
Meet my grandmother, the first fashion addict I ever got to know. Now, she wasn't actually my grandmother, she was my mother's aunt. My moth...
helena halmei canauthorneverwear
https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/03/beckhams-in-finland.html?showComment=1268940019077
Helena Halme Author: The Beckhams in Finland
The biggest news item on TV and the various plasma screens in trams and the metro last Sunday in Finland was the arrival of Mr Beckham to Tu...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-i-came-to-be-in-england-part-33.html?showComment=1262918340259
Helena Halme Author: How I came to be in England - Part 33
The Englishman and I took our first ever flight together from Helsinki to Stockholm on the day before Christmas Eve in 1983. Though there ...
helena halmehow i
https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-z-blogging-challenge-h-is-for-helsinki.html?showComment=1365542046778
Helena Halme Author: A-z Blogging Challenge: H is for Helsinki
My theme: Writing and the business of writing What has Helsinki got to do with writing, I hear you scream. Well, OK, absolutely nothing, a...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/04/same-old-same-old.html?showComment=1272204606735
Helena Halme Author: Same old, same old...
Some of the presents for my birthday were envelopes containing hard cash. I have absolutely nothing against this, even if it smacks of tee...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/09/englands-lane-books.html?showComment=1283551090408
Helena Halme Author: England's Lane Books
Picture by The Bookseller I've written here before about my love for small, quirky independent bookshops. Such as Mr's B's Emporium in ...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/02/am-i-in-love-with-writing-or-is-writing.html?showComment=1266785079811
Helena Halme Author: Am I in love with writing or is writing in love with me?
Writing a novel is like a love affair. When at first you get the idea for a novel you are attracted, not able to think about anything else, ...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-year-that-was-2013.html?showComment=1388434181428
Helena Halme Author: The Year That Was 2013
2013 has been quite a year for me. I'm not sure I can recall a time when so much happened in a mere twelve months. First of all, I finally...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/05/changes.html
Helena Halme Author: Changes
I've just read a post by one of my blogging friends North West London Girl in the Country about moving from the city, a life she knew, to a...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2009/10/swooning-over-dominic-west-and-growing.html?showComment=1256499902254
Helena Halme Author: Sacred Made Real at The National Gallery
My day in London turned out to be all about bodies. My good friend and I started the day off at the 'Sacred Made Real' exhibition at the Nat...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-i-came-to-be-in-england-part-42.html?showComment=1272373131843
Helena Halme Author: How I came to be in England - Part 42
I I spent most of the spring of 1984 alone in the house in Southsea, studying for the final exams I was to take at the Finnish Embassy in Ch...
helena halmehow i
https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/05/something-so-right.html?showComment=1273433465281
Helena Halme Author: Something so right
I thought I'd embarrass everybody by crying my eyes out at Son's Oxford University graduation ceremony, but I managed to control myself. W...
helena halmeauthorsomethingright
https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/02/am-i-in-love-with-writing-or-is-writing.html?showComment=1266156467220
Helena Halme Author: Am I in love with writing or is writing in love with me?
Writing a novel is like a love affair. When at first you get the idea for a novel you are attracted, not able to think about anything else, ...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-i-came-to-be-in-england-part-42.html?showComment=1272320650277
Helena Halme Author: How I came to be in England - Part 42
I I spent most of the spring of 1984 alone in the house in Southsea, studying for the final exams I was to take at the Finnish Embassy in Ch...
helena halmehow i
https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/04/i-was-born-wearing-denim.html?showComment=1271231478776
Helena Halme Author: I was born to wear denim
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-year-that-was-2013.html?showComment=1388434870111
Helena Halme Author: The Year That Was 2013
2013 has been quite a year for me. I'm not sure I can recall a time when so much happened in a mere twelve months. First of all, I finally...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2012/04/its-raining-its-pouring.html
Helena Halme Author: It's raining, it's pouring...
For the first time ever, due to the low levels of rainfall, there's a hose-pipe ban in the UK this early in the year. The summer isn't even ...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/11/its-all-just-game-of-battleship.html?showComment=1289249939286
Helena Halme Author: It's all just a game of battleship
Image from Google images I do sometimes wonder if I should give up this writing lark. I keep asking myself if I'll ever get publishe...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/02/how-i-came-to-be-in-england-part-36.html
Helena Halme Author: How I came to be in England - Part 36
The Englishman and I set the date for my move to England for 25th February 1984. I'd take the train through Europe, and then cross the Chann...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2009/06/exams-and-hangover.html?showComment=1244734438415
Helena Halme Author: Exams and The Hangover
The house is gripped by exam panic. Today, at this very moment, it's English (Lit or Lang...I should know). I'm meant to be getting on with ...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/03/pappas-girl.html?showComment=1267898496519
Helena Halme Author: Pappa's Girl
Tampere 1971 Perhaps it was the violence, perhaps the unpredictability of the event, to me at least, that afterwards totally coloured my...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2009/09/that-awful-expression.html?showComment=1253849623385
Helena Halme Author: That awful expression
I'm told what I'm going through is called 'Empty Nesting'. But I'm not a bird. I do not nest, I have no feathers of my own (only expensively...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-i-came-to-be-in-england-part-33.html?showComment=1263145013857
Helena Halme Author: How I came to be in England - Part 33
The Englishman and I took our first ever flight together from Helsinki to Stockholm on the day before Christmas Eve in 1983. Though there ...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/03/pappas-girl-part-two.html?showComment=1269466142926
Helena Halme Author: Pappa's Girl - Part Two
When Pappa told us that he could earn lots of money in Sweden if we all moved to Stockholm , I was twelve and nearly as tall as him. I coul...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2009/11/dirty-laundry.html?showComment=1258788689879
Helena Halme Author: Dirty laundry
There's one thing I value more than anything: a good dry cleaners. When we relocated our business premises some years ago, we stumbled upo...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/01/tagged.html
Helena Halme Author: Tagged!
Yesterday started with an amazing and utterly delightful discovery. The world-famed blogger, LibertyLondonGirl (French Vogue calls her blog...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2009/12/finnish-guilt.html?showComment=1260447449026
Helena Halme Author: Finnish guilt
I had a wonderful time in Helsinki last weekend. (You may have noticed...?) Although my family now live elsewhere, this city was home to me ...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-i-came-to-be-in-england-part-33.html
Helena Halme Author: How I came to be in England - Part 33
The Englishman and I took our first ever flight together from Helsinki to Stockholm on the day before Christmas Eve in 1983. Though there ...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-big-fat-birthday.html?showComment=1272020142959
Helena Halme Author: My Big Fat Birthday
Against all odds I survived the day of my big birthday. I'm not usually bothered about my age. Obviously I'd like to be 25, or perhaps even ...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-object-of-desire.html?showComment=1264616597038
Helena Halme Author: New Object of Desire
This actor played a police detective in the Swedish Wallander series on BBC4. His name is Ola Rapace and he was the on-off boyfriend of Insp...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2010/05/yet-another-wardrobe-dilemma.html?showComment=1274305683470
Helena Halme Author: Yet another wardrobe dilemma
We've been invited to a good friend's party in London this weekend. I know it'll be a trendy crowd, so I want to wear something that won't h...
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https://helenahalme.blogspot.com/2009/10/10-things-british-i-havent-succumbed-to.html?showComment=1254934137642
Helena Halme Author: 10 Things British I haven't succumbed to
I have nicked (OK borrowed with permission) this idea from a fellow lovely ex-pat blogger Expat Mum . She wrote about things she hasn't embr...
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