I think Finns are in touch with their emotions, its just not broadcasted to the outside always. Or never in some cases, and when emotion is shown, its always subtle or shrouded in humour.
You may know this already, but JRR Tolkien was a great lover of languages, so much so that he even invented his own. His two favourite languages were Welsh and Finnish. Wrt the latter he said (paraphrasing from memory) something like Finnish was like taking a refreshing swim in a beautiful crystal clear lake.
According to the Met Office/BBC, this May was the warmest May in British history. They lie and they lie and they lie and they lie. But nobody believes them any more.
@@FraserBailey-jm5yz Western media only squeal about boiling oceans when summer arrives in the northern hemisphere. Silence during summers in the southern hemisphere (or do Aussie media squeal about it then?)
By J. Karjalainen Although this song is about a special memory from the authors life, the song tells it in a very romanticized and nostalgic way. Lupins are like a metaphor of a freedom and wildness of people and life.
One of my biggest regrets was not learning the Finnish language, my mother wanted to teach me, but my farther was opposed to it for some strange reason. I first went to Finland in 1963 then again in 65 then twice in the 90's and then spending a year there in 2001 then three times there after on visits to my brothers and family. I always seem to find my spiritual self when there,, the blue and the green, fire and ice, can't see the wood for the tree's and the stillness out on the lakes on a warm summer's day, beautiful stunning country, which reminds me to read the Kalevala.
@@nigelwatson2750 My brothers live in central eastern Savo and they laugh and say we up here, are much like American red necks, our dialect is different to those down south, in fact I have a very strong family heritage in the Savo region. Picked the forest berries and mushrooms, fished the lakes, smoke sauna's, drank the beer and the odd forest spirit 😁
Try to translate this one :) NOCTURNE ”Ruislinnun laulu korvissani, tähkäpäiden päällä täysi kuu; kesäyön on onni omanani, kaskisavuun laaksot verhouu. En ma iloitse, en sure, huokaa; mutta metsän tummuus mulle tuokaa, puunto pilven, johon päivä hukkuu, siinto vaaran tuulisen, mi nukkuu, tuoksut vanamon ja varjot veen; niistä sydämeni laulun teen. Sulle laulan neiti, kesäheinä, sydämeni suuri hiljaisuus, uskontoni, soipa säveleinä, tammenlehvä-seppel vehryt, uus. En ma enää aja virvatulta, omani on Hiiden vuoren kulta; pienentyy mun ympär’ elon piiri; aika seisoo, nukkuu tuuliviiri; edessäni hämäräinen tie tuntemattomahan tupaan vie.” Eino Leino 3.7.1903
Nice that you like to learn finnish language...there looks so lovely..wish to live in the countryside of Finland instead of Helsinki, here also is beautiful nature but not as in the countryside...beautiful song ❤, hope you learn that in finnish and sing to us..😃🎤
Lupins do better growing wild in natural surroundings and in vast swathes as in Finland, the US etc. or when grown as a field crop. They look very beautiful when they grow in profusion. Cultivating them in a small scale garden setting is more tricky as they are subject to slug and snail attack especially when they are young plants and they just don't have the same resilience as growing in the wild.
It's 14 degrees C and rain in West Cornwall today, but after our wet winter our Hedges Lanes and Footpaths are a gorgeous sea of pinks purples blues and yellows, I have never seen so many Foxgloves and lush rich growth all over.
I'm Finnish and I have an interest in Japanese. And what I've noticed is there are some quite incredible similarities. Look at these words: Jari/Yari, same pronunciation Teppo Kana Sora Hiki Tori Taka- (a prefix) Motto (same pronunciation, not like the English/Latin one) Nii Sai Hai Just a few examples. These are nearly identical between the two languages, just with different meaning. You won't find this pattern with ANY other language vs. Japanese. Jari and Teppo are common Finnish first names, and in Japanese they are types of weapons (a spear and a gun). Then there is "no" (english). In Finnish it's "ei". In Japanese it's "iie". How crazy is that? The way Japanese kids say otoosan, okaasan, to me it sounds so familiar to the common speech pattern of Finnish kids. Surely we aren't supposed to sound the same, when there's thousands of miles of different speaking cultures between us geographically?! Just what is the mystery here. I no longer believe in coincidences, seen a bit too many of those...
"Arguing with a stupid person is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how skilled you are at chess, the pigeon will just knock over the pieces, poop on the board, and strut around as if it won."
4 seasons a year seems a bit opulent to me. Here in Scotland we make do with 1. The rainy season😃. I think we all start off traveling together, but to many are side tracked, and are tempted off the Lupin road.
The Finnish language surely is challenging for foreigners to learn and another thing is that in general we Finns are often reluctant to speak Finnish to foreigners because as soon as we have an opportunity to practise our English we always rather speak English and especially with those whose native language it is. Unfortunately, if you insist on speaking Finnish with Finns it is the older people who are often unable to speak foreign languages and by older people I mean something like 80+.
I have noticed this, especially with younger people. I will start off speaking Finnish, but they will reply in English. I'll speak again in Finnish, and so on. Like tennis.
A few years back when all the Scandi dramas and movies were popular, I got into a band from Finland called 'Melrose'. . Rich little b**ch. . 😂. Proper Finnish hillbilly music. Trying to find the name of the movie now 'she is the talk . . Of the town 🎸🎻🥁'. 😂
how fluent are you by now in Finnish, Nigel? You moved there in 2021 right? So in 3 years has it been difficult? Also, does your Finnish have a British northern accent? I'm curious. One thing I love about England is the bluebells that rise from the earth in April. They fill ancient woodland and I think it's the most beautiful aspect of our spring.
@@mancunianinlondon The first step is that you try to speak - most Brits don't bother and initiate conversations abroad in English, which is arrogant & word. Finns don't expect you to be grammatically perfect. They also don't expect you to not have an accent, or to make grammatical mistakes. However, what they DO EXPECT is for you to make an effort & try to speak in Finnish. When you go abroad, do you automatically speak in English and expect people to speak to you in your language in THEIR country?
@@nigelwatson2750 yeah of course it happens all the time. I got caught out when I went to live in Holland. I ended up in an insular place just outside Utrecht and not one person there spoke English. I just had to learn to read Dutch and spk basic words at the beginning. I'm learning bits of basic Thai now for when I go to Thailand in 2 weeks 🙂
So Sorry Nigel,,, ( no yer not ) mmm, yes I am, I have to ask the little pond behind you with the boats,,,,, Are they Hemmed in with the reeds,,, ( I'm talking about the lovely poetry in the Finnish language. ) I know, I know, its the ADHD thing,,,, OOO, there I go. Really loved this show anything about somewhere to live other than loving Bright compassionate Manchester is a plus But describing the culture from your point of view/ perspective is the substance that is valuable. You sound like your from Sharston/Wythenshawe ,,,x God Bless Nigel, Always Grateful for his time and effort, and always share on X.. I don't have many followers but there yours as well.
@@nigelwatson2750 AW Great Stuff, I thought maybe it died off part of the Year, River Sea fishing reading cycling in probably the most peaceful place compared to population size I have seen on you tube.. Take care Buddy, I'll wait for your next instalment.👍
Matthew 7:21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
I think Finns are in touch with their emotions, its just not broadcasted to the outside always. Or never in some cases, and when emotion is shown, its always subtle or shrouded in humour.
Lots of Lupins in Scotland 😊
That song was ethereal , loved the harmonica 👍🏼😁
My parents' garden in Scotland had a profusion of lupins when I was a boy. This brought back memories.
Nice change......appreciate the day and enjoy the beautiful gifts of nature.
Nigel
I love the wild flowers
You may know this already, but JRR Tolkien was a great lover of languages, so much so that he even invented his own. His two favourite languages were Welsh and Finnish.
Wrt the latter he said (paraphrasing from memory) something like Finnish was like taking a refreshing swim in a beautiful crystal clear lake.
As I was listening to this, I thought it sounded like something Tolkien would write! Makes sense now.
What a lovely video, beautiful lupins! I really appreciate the variety of your subject matter, Nigel 🙏🏻
Thanks
The heating came on a coupla times last night and it's June in the UK Must be global warming...
Lol 😂 I had the heating on this morning for 15 minutes
Yes here in the UK 😂😂😂
According to the Met Office/BBC, this May was the warmest May in British history. They lie and they lie and they lie and they lie. But nobody believes them any more.
Hottest May n June on record, be afraid,be very afraid
@@FraserBailey-jm5yz
Western media only squeal about boiling oceans when summer arrives in the northern hemisphere. Silence during summers in the southern hemisphere (or do Aussie media squeal about it then?)
@@pureblood8307 I am afraid Afraid the weather modification will render summer obsolete
By J. Karjalainen
Although this song is about a special memory from the authors life, the song tells it in a very romanticized and nostalgic way. Lupins are like a metaphor of a freedom and wildness of people and life.
I have been on J.Karjalainen’s concert twice in Pori.
Me too - Iskelmä?
One of my biggest regrets was not learning the Finnish language, my mother wanted to teach me, but my farther was opposed to it for some strange reason. I first went to Finland in 1963 then again in 65 then twice in the 90's and then spending a year there in 2001 then three times there after on visits to my brothers and family. I always seem to find my spiritual self when there,, the blue and the green, fire and ice, can't see the wood for the tree's and the stillness out on the lakes on a warm summer's day, beautiful stunning country, which reminds me to read the Kalevala.
you can learn it now, as an adult
You understand Finland
@@nigelwatson2750 My brothers live in central eastern Savo and they laugh and say we up here, are much like American red necks, our dialect is different to those down south, in fact I have a very strong family heritage in the Savo region. Picked the forest berries and mushrooms, fished the lakes, smoke sauna's, drank the beer and the odd forest spirit 😁
Very beautiful vlog! I LOVE lupins❤
Thank you
Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. Mat 6 33❤❤
I'm always amazed by how water reacts to the leaves on Lupins, like mercury pearls, really beautiful.
You have Finland , I have HAYLE - Cornwall , this place is my temporary heaven , my ground, my foundation the place my energy is directed from .
Try to translate this one :)
NOCTURNE
”Ruislinnun laulu korvissani,
tähkäpäiden päällä täysi kuu;
kesäyön on onni omanani,
kaskisavuun laaksot verhouu.
En ma iloitse, en sure, huokaa;
mutta metsän tummuus mulle tuokaa,
puunto pilven, johon päivä hukkuu,
siinto vaaran tuulisen, mi nukkuu,
tuoksut vanamon ja varjot veen;
niistä sydämeni laulun teen.
Sulle laulan neiti, kesäheinä,
sydämeni suuri hiljaisuus,
uskontoni, soipa säveleinä,
tammenlehvä-seppel vehryt, uus.
En ma enää aja virvatulta,
omani on Hiiden vuoren kulta;
pienentyy mun ympär’ elon piiri;
aika seisoo, nukkuu tuuliviiri;
edessäni hämäräinen tie
tuntemattomahan tupaan vie.”
Eino Leino 3.7.1903
Lovely words and song, Nigel. Thanks for sharing.
Great video Nigel! Lovely song.
Oh Thank you what a beautiful song! And message.
Korpiklanni , for the win .
I need to go .
Nice that you like to learn finnish language...there looks so lovely..wish to live in the countryside of Finland instead of Helsinki, here also is beautiful nature but not as in the countryside...beautiful song ❤, hope you learn that in finnish and sing to us..😃🎤
Your video...what a treat!
Thanks
Lupins do better growing wild in natural surroundings and in vast swathes as in Finland, the US etc. or when grown as a field crop. They look very beautiful when they grow in profusion.
Cultivating them in a small scale garden setting is more tricky as they are subject to slug and snail attack especially when they are young plants and they just don't have the same resilience as growing in the wild.
Yes, that's right, Gwen. My wife tried and failed to grow lupines when we lived in England
It's 14 degrees C and rain in West Cornwall today, but after our wet winter our Hedges Lanes and Footpaths are a gorgeous sea of pinks purples blues and yellows, I have never seen so many Foxgloves and lush rich growth all over.
Myönteinen ja nostattava video! Upbeat! Kiitos!
Ole hyvä
Lovely.
I hear that Finland pulled the short straw and will get the first batch of tweety floo spears. Now what did you do to deserve that?
What is "tweety floo spear"?
Fantastic song!
I know very little about Finland, I was surprised about their four seasons. I always assumed they were perpetually cold.
No, the summers are hot & sunny
I have seen similar wildflowers here. I think they are purple vetch
I'm Finnish and I have an interest in Japanese. And what I've noticed is there are some quite incredible similarities. Look at these words:
Jari/Yari, same pronunciation
Teppo
Kana
Sora
Hiki
Tori
Taka- (a prefix)
Motto (same pronunciation, not like the English/Latin one)
Nii
Sai
Hai
Just a few examples. These are nearly identical between the two languages, just with different meaning. You won't find this pattern with ANY other language vs. Japanese. Jari and Teppo are common Finnish first names, and in Japanese they are types of weapons (a spear and a gun).
Then there is "no" (english). In Finnish it's "ei". In Japanese it's "iie". How crazy is that?
The way Japanese kids say otoosan, okaasan, to me it sounds so familiar to the common speech pattern of Finnish kids. Surely we aren't supposed to sound the same, when there's thousands of miles of different speaking cultures between us geographically?! Just what is the mystery here. I no longer believe in coincidences, seen a bit too many of those...
True
Nigel, I thought you had become a vicar, that thumbnail is deceptive.
"Arguing with a stupid person is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how skilled you are at chess, the pigeon will just knock over the pieces, poop on the board, and strut around as if it won."
4 seasons a year seems a bit opulent to me. Here in Scotland we make do with 1. The rainy season😃. I think we all start off traveling together, but to many are side tracked, and are tempted off the Lupin road.
Opulent 😸
But blimey, when Billy Connolly were a lad it had two seasons: July and winter. You bin robbed!
Music by Neil Youngalainen.
Irish Gaelige is by far the most expressive descriptive language in the world (definitely maybe 🤔)
The Finnish language surely is challenging for foreigners to learn and another thing is that in general we Finns are often reluctant to speak Finnish to foreigners because as soon as we have an opportunity to practise our English we always rather speak English and especially with those whose native language it is.
Unfortunately, if you insist on speaking Finnish with Finns it is the older people who are often unable to speak foreign languages and by older people I mean something like 80+.
I have noticed this, especially with younger people. I will start off speaking Finnish, but they will reply in English. I'll speak again in Finnish, and so on. Like tennis.
4 distinct seasons? You must be a far right climate change denier.😂
sounds a bit similar to American natives. Or even Scottish. Maybe that means something.
Looking like a priesty fella 😆👍
Night wish comes to mind
Nice one Nigel, gud vid...
Thanks
How many roads must a man walk down,,, answer is blowing in the wind.. x
A few years back when all the Scandi dramas and movies were popular, I got into a band from Finland called 'Melrose'. . Rich little b**ch. . 😂. Proper Finnish hillbilly music. Trying to find the name of the movie now
'she is the talk . . Of the town 🎸🎻🥁'. 😂
Don't forget Nightwish (Finland) and Therion (Sweden). Epic prog disguised as symphonic metal.
how fluent are you by now in Finnish, Nigel? You moved there in 2021 right? So in 3 years has it been difficult? Also, does your Finnish have a British northern accent? I'm curious. One thing I love about England is the bluebells that rise from the earth in April. They fill ancient woodland and I think it's the most beautiful aspect of our spring.
I speak to Finns in Finnish
@@nigelwatson2750 that's fantastic. I know lots of people who move to foreign countries and never spk the local lingo fluently
@@mancunianinlondon The first step is that you try to speak - most Brits don't bother and initiate conversations abroad in English, which is arrogant & word. Finns don't expect you to be grammatically perfect. They also don't expect you to not have an accent, or to make grammatical mistakes. However, what they DO EXPECT is for you to make an effort & try to speak in Finnish. When you go abroad, do you automatically speak in English and expect people to speak to you in your language in THEIR country?
@@nigelwatson2750 yeah of course it happens all the time. I got caught out when I went to live in Holland. I ended up in an insular place just outside Utrecht and not one person there spoke English. I just had to learn to read Dutch and spk basic words at the beginning. I'm learning bits of basic Thai now for when I go to Thailand in 2 weeks 🙂
So Sorry Nigel,,, ( no yer not ) mmm, yes I am, I have to ask the little pond behind you with the boats,,,,, Are they Hemmed in with the reeds,,, ( I'm talking about the lovely poetry in the Finnish language. ) I know, I know, its the ADHD thing,,,, OOO, there I go. Really loved this show anything about somewhere to live other than loving Bright compassionate Manchester is a plus But describing the culture from your point of view/ perspective is the substance that is valuable. You sound like your from Sharston/Wythenshawe ,,,x God Bless Nigel, Always Grateful for his time and effort, and always share on X.. I don't have many followers but there yours as well.
No, it leads out into a river, and then the sea.
@@nigelwatson2750 AW Great Stuff, I thought maybe it died off part of the Year, River Sea fishing reading cycling in probably the most peaceful place compared to population size I have seen on you tube.. Take care Buddy, I'll wait for your next instalment.👍
Definitely to be preferred over rap lyrics.
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Kiitos
if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
Matthew 7:21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
What is the deal with Finnish being related to the Hungarian language? That's some distance.
Grammar - they also 'bend' words in all sorts of exotic ways