NordenBladet – On August 25th dad turned 80! Dad didn’t want a big party so we celebrated with the nearest and dearest at my older sister’s place in Tartu. I guess I am like my dad in this aspect, because I also don’t tolerate big events at a long table and merely the word “jubilee” brings to the mind’s eye old age, dianthus flowers and a bunch of people that I wouldn’t stand on a voluntary basis. Normal text, heh? Hahaa ?
I gave dad as a present the painting from 2019 “Sweden’s National Day” that has also been at an exhibition in the Estonian National Museum. This was my lifetime’s second flower painting, the first flower painting “Syringa vulgaris” I gave to my mom as a present. Besides, I made a raspberry cake and we also gave as a present a wooden bird feeder. Dad is a great fan of birds and every winter he puts up fat balls and seed houses and then watches the birds from his office window, how they scrabble. Cool!
We (me, Allan, Estella and Ivanka) went back to Tallinn in the evening, as Estella had to move to MUBA school the next morning (luckily she also got a room in the dormitory for this year). This means for her several saved hours from the travel to school that she can now use for practising the violin. This year she was accommodated in the same room with two Japanese ballet dancers.
Parents themselves stayed overnight in Tartu at my older sister Marie’s place, since mom and dad made themselves a present, a house.. hahaaa ? and mom wanted to start settling in the next day already. My parents are no believers in the stock market, so they invest all spare money into real estate and land.
