Patrick Dempsey from Grey’s Anatomy’s oversexed, unattainable bachelor meets Michelle Monaghan’s clever, pretty platonic best friend, overcoming his commitment phobia at the last possible moment (when she’s about to marry a Scotch nobleman–what other types of Scotsman are there in romantic comedies?) to claim her and live happily-ever-after.

 Maternity Doctors up North

Every mother-to-be in Oulu has a chance to get a closer look at her baby on the monitor during an ultrasound examination. So did I in the beginning of the second trimester of my pregnancy.

My husband, although having looked forward to the first glimpses on his offspring, stayed at home, poor soul, nursing a bad case of influenza with high fever. I on the other hand was spared from sickness for the whole of my pregnancy so far (knock on wood!), although all around me people were coughing and sneezing their way though fall and winter.