Update on progress to my English correspondent  and maybe some news for others too :) 

No compensation received from the airline related to the delay in getting home from NYC because of the ash cloud.  Sad but expected.  Insurance company is not paying either.  "Act of nature" was the term used.  Fortunately I got a bonus on April from last year's performance and heard today that I got a one-time bonus of the work well done during the Spring.  Basicly means that the balance is even now.

My big boss is leaving to India in July and we got already information about the replacement, my previous boss two years back.  This is ok for me.  I would now remind everybody not to burn bridges when leaving!  It might happen that you have to work with the same people again sometime in your life.

I have started in a new role as a Global Staffing Manager, main responsibility in Competence Development coordination in an organisation of 600 people.  New and interesting stuff, great :)

We have bought a new house in Helsinki.  Selling of the old house starting soon, actually we had one family investigating already on Sunday but the advert will be published probably this week.  Interesting to see how the price will be and how long the selling takes. 

Girls started their summer holiday yesterday, our hols will be in July.  Girls are at home as getting work for summer is impossible in the current financial situation.  No plans for us either as everything depends on selling and moving schedule.  Probably we will spent one week on a cottage somewhere in Finland just the two of us.  Girls are not willing to have their freetime with us anymore.

Tuuli will know next week Wednesday if she got accepted to the art's school.  Heini can decide herself if she wants to continue last year at the current school or change to local one in Helsinki.  She will be 18 in a month!  Started driving school a week or two ago already.  They get so big so soon ;O