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Dragonbane arctic base moving south (Tinsku)

Dragonbane Diary
Thursday, May 25th, 2006
Sodankylä, Finland

For the last month our log house on the riverside in Finnish Lapland has been a real Dragonbane base. Over 20 people have been working here, most of them have lived here for two weeks. The Dragonbane-truck has been transporting material to our base and forward to Älvdalen far down the Swedish side.

There has been really amazing amounts of weird material in our living room, sauna, storage and yard: for example several kilometres wool and 150 kilos of glue, from which we made tents for the dragontamers, “one and a half Hiace” of reindeer skins and seven laptops working at the same time on our dining table.

People really gave me a stare in the local supermarket when I was shopping food for our workshop – ten kilos of onions and same amount of carrots, several kilos of crushed tomatos and loads of other stuff. I just smiled and said: “They told me to eat for two” (I’m seven months pregnant).

During these last weeks I have also been ordering weird amounts of material, like 2000 m2  of roof material. The company told me the needed amount of roof nails in kilos. I then calculated how many nails it meant: 46 200 nails! And this just for the roofs in Cinderhill. We decided to buy the nails AND a nail gun.

Even the weather has been “Dragonbane style”, i.e. not predictable. A month ago we had still 20 cm of snow, at the beginning of May during our workshop it was +25 degrees Celsius and sunny, a week later -5 Celsius again and for 3 days we got rain in every different form of it. We got to see the ice breaking in the river, the flood of this year wasn’t so bad.

We have been in media a lot. One full page article of Dragonbane in the leading newspaper in Finland, Helsingin Sanomat, and several articles in local papers at least in Finland and Sweden. Two radio interviews, one of them was 40 minutes long. And of course our webpage updates.

Today it’s quiet. It’s a holiday in Finland and Sweden so I don’t need to be on the phone talking with our partners. I’m waiting for our truck to arrive from Älvdalen – I got SMS in the night at 5 a.m. that our guys had finally loaded the last dragon temple elements from Tornio at the border of Finland and Sweden. They’ll sleep for some hours and then drive here. I’m having my breakfast and watching the swan having his in the river.

I have one task for today: to pack my Dragonbane office. Tomorrow we will start driving to Sweden. We will take more tools, one builder and real Finnish rye bread to the building camp. I will have one week to take care of the last official matters with the local authors. After that my office will go to southern Finland.

I will come back to this log house in August. Before that my life will change dramatically:

After this move and the next months my life will never be the same. I think I need another cup of coffee to think about it.

Tiinaliisa Turunen

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