Halme Accountancy
06/02/2012 2 Comments
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Helena Halme is licensed and regulated by the AAT under license number 5488
About Helena Halme
An AAT trained Finance Professional with a MSc in Economics and over 20 years of experience in all aspects of company and personal finances as well as tax.
Hi Helena
Having found your blog several weeks ago I have been reading from the start and had just got to midway through 2011, but now I find that your blog “Helena’s Longon Life” has disappeared. Is this deliberate or is it because you have got internet or blogger technical problems? I do hope that I can continue to catch up with your blogs, I have really enjoyed reading them & also your story of how you came to marry the Englishman – I read all those episodes in a couple of days & Pappa’s Girl.
Please tell me how I can continue reading your blog(s).
Thank you.
Hi Helena
Please ignore my previous email – I have just seen your note about the techie problems you are having & the link – should have read the page properly.
BTW I visited Sweden, Norway & Finland many years ago – during the early eighties – unfortunately have never been back – not yet anyway. We visited Helsinki after visiting Sweden & it seemed (to us anyway) a bit like a soviet block country in the style of the buildings – it all seemed quite dark & grim, although I remember the shops & products on display were obviously nothing to do with the Soviet block – the designs were beautiful and well made. I think it was the contrast with Stockholm that made it seem so. I imagine it is probably very different now. I remember camping in a tiny 2-man tent (not my idea) on a campsite in Oulu (not sure if spelling is right). I will never forget Oulu as that night in the tent was one of the most miserable & uncomfortable nights of my life. I rained all night & in the morning everything in the tent & in our backpacks was damp. We trudged to the bus stop in the rain without anything to eat or drink apart from some water & waited for an hour in the pouring rate for the bus to arrive. We were soaked, cold & hungry. We were getting ferry back to Sweden (I think) & whilst waiting went into the cafe at the harbour. What I really wanted was eggs & bacon or porridge but what they had was pastries & cake. But we had to eat something so ordered a cinammon pastry & a dense chocolate cake & plenty of coffee. That breakfast was sublime – the memory of it has stayed with me all these years. That coffee was the best I had ever tasted (& I lived in Switzerland at the time so could get decent coffee) & the cake & pastry tasted like manna from heaven. I have to admit that maybe circumstances had something to do with this, but really I remember it to this day how the cakes & coffee tasted so wonderful & suddenly I didn’t feel so wet & cold & miserable anymore.
I have to admit I fell in love with Sweden – all the water & space & the light. I really hope to re-visit Scandinavia again & this time see more of Finland this time. If only the exchange rate was better against the GPB I would have been back a dozen times, despite my love affair with France!
Am loving your blog & so glad I found it – from the now defunct “A Life Reclaimed” which I discovered via “Liberty London Girl” – so it is really LLG I have to thank.
All the best to you.
Tricia Stanley