Random readers and nice neighbors

Yesterday I noticed that there´s a new follower in my blog. Her name is Sarah. I don´t know her so I checked her blog. And it got me to thinking about random readers. I admit that I am a random reader yet I´m also active reader. I follow some blogs very actively. Some of them are written by family members and some of those writers I don´t know any more than I know this Sarah who is reading my blog. So why do I read these blogs if I don´t know the reader..?! I guess it must be the fact that I find those inspiring. Some of them have beautiful photos, some of them have a great sense of humour and so on.. Those blogs give me new ideas and they even might give me a wider perspective on how to think, what to write and how to see things. For those same reasons I go through those random blogs. And sometimes it happens that I find some blog so interesting that I become active reader of it.

I know that some of my friends follow my blog even though they aren´t on my follower list. My sister isn´t on the list and she does follow my blog pretty actively. Actually, she wrote a note on her own blog that her sister (= me) is writing a blog and added the address of my site there as well.. so there will be more readers, random and active, I suppose. So I guess I need to thank my sister for that.. :) Love you sis´!!

And ofcourse, welcome new readers. Random or not.

The other subject of the day is neighbors. As some of you know, I live in Turku. Turku is a city of 175 000 people and it´s going be the Capital of Culture in 2011. So this is a city where is alot going on. I live about 4 or 5 km from the city center and the atmosphere here is totally opposite to the downtown. There is alot of possibilities nearby, shopping center, swimming hall etc. and when looking out you would never believe it.. All you can see from my windows is the house next to this, childrens playground and forest. When I get out, the first things I see is a football field behind the trees. So the nature is close here, even though with bus it takes 15 minutes to get to downtown.. And I guess that the nature has some sort of influence to my neighbors as well.. Just last night one of my neighbors ringed my doorbell and brought me some lingonberry buns and two slices of pancake he made himself. He also did give his phone number if there ever is something I need help with.. he likes to repair all kind of electronical devices..

And he´s not the only one like this. Most of my neighbors are polite and friendly, always talking when we see outdoors or at the elevator, asking how are things and stuff like that.. During the spring I had a special person visiting me quite often and he told me that maybe he´s visiting me too often because my neighbors were saying hellos and that sort of stuff to him as well.. And people tend to say that people in Turku are introverted, warming up slowly for outsiders.. Could this be more untrue.. :)

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