Thursday, May 13

Ascension Day arrives, and the men renovating the bedroom arrive with it. They have managed to get permission to work today and take tomorrow off: giving themselves a three day weekend. Our four-day weekend disappears with their arrival.

“Huh”, I say and go for a walk. I take a long, slow, circular route, and turn off Riskutie into Sormuspolku. I pass some postboxes, one of which has an eye-catching, hand drawn illustration.

I stop to work out whether a child or an adult did it, and decide that I can’t decide.

I get back and settle down to an unexpected day’s work.