My love affair with London began in 1996 just before Christmas, when I and newspaper Kaleva’s photographer Jarmo Kontiainen were assigned to cover a story on Finnish nurses. The blond, blue-eyed nurses were top stories in both countries. I interviewed them in St Bartholomew’s Hospital and in The Royal London Hospital. The real eye-opener for me was London itself per […]
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The treasurer of a very exotic flower
Words are thoughts in outerwear. Freedom to express them is vital. My first novel’s Papparazzi Strikes final story It Wasn’t Me – It Was The Pen I pay tribute to this fundamental right: “Truly and genuinely independent press is a very exotic flower to be tended gently and with love. It will shrink and die easily in the wrong hands.” […]