1: I was working on a recording audio and we had just written the script in TextEdit from notes gathered on A4′s. Only 20 minutes to finish, with absolutely no possibility to extend the time (for reasons I can’t explain here). You can probably see where this is going even before it started? So my MacBook craps out on me when pressing ‘stop’ after about five recordings. No mouse, no keyboard, no response and no time to waste. Reason why I almost panicked, was that of course I didn’t remember to save the text document after creating it. That was the major issue, it would take about 15 minutes to re-write the document, so it could be very tight to get it finished.

I was literally blinded with joy when TextEdit launched and automatically recovered my document. Blinded. I had no idea auto-recovery actually works on non-saved documents, too. Brilliant.

2: The other occasion I was saved in was at The Finnish Church in London. Not in the conventional way as you might expect from being in a church but by replenishing my coffee supply. As you know I go through a lot of coffee and about a week ago I ran out. Since moving to the UK about 5 years ago, I’ve maybe bought three or four packs of regular ‘British’ filter coffee and thrown all of them away. Rubbish. Buying it from a normal supermarket was not an option.

If you happen to be in South London or have some time to spend, I’d recommend visiting the church. They have a small shop selling Finnish products like coffee, rye bread and tons of different candy, a cafe and a proper Finnish sauna. The shop, by the way, to me is a bit like visiting Ikea Food Market is for a Swede. Except the produce is not aftermarket and 2nd class. You do pay for quality.

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In other news today, Hannes Heikura, the photojournalist, won the Finnish news photo AND the photographer of the year competition, again. Have a look at his work here. He’s good.

–kristian