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Thursday 2 January 2020

Writing exercise - Create your own celebration day

As you know, there are celebration days for pretty much anything these days, from National Talk Like a Pirate Day - 19th September this year if you need to know, the US has a National Fossil Day on October 13th and June 4th this year is UK National Cheese Day.  So surely we can invent our own National Day?
How about National Eat Jelly on the Beach Day?
Or The International Day of Hygge?

For the first exercise today I'm going to focus on the International Day of Hygge.

If your day had a website, what would be on the home page?

  1. An explanation of the word Hygge - for the uninitiated.
  2. Pictures such as hot chocolate with cream and marshmallows on top (preferably the person drinking the hot chocolate should be curled up on a very comfortable sofa with sheepskins, blankets and cushions, should be wearing comfortable clothes and fluffy socks and should have some whipped cream from the hot choc on their nose.  They should be smiling and laughing with a friend or three and there should be a log burner lit and snow falling outside the window.
  3. A list of things you might do to achieve Hygge.
I've just looked this up actually, and found that I'm not the first to have this wonderful idea.  There is an International Hygge Day on 28th February, and a UK Hygge Day on 1st March.

What personal story could you contribute to your Celebration Day website?

I would describe a Hygge Day I had spent:  




I was a teenager, living with my family.  On this particular day I went out with a group of friends.  We drove to a pebble beach in a nearby town.  We were all wrapped up warm for the wintry weather.  We walked and chatted.  We sat on the pebbles, threw some into the sea and just enjoyed one another's company.  The sea was grey and serious looking as it crashed up the steep bank of pebbles.  Once our hands were thoroughly chilly we headed back to the car.  On the way home we stopped in a traditional tea-shop.  It was all tablecloths and doilies, proper pots of steaming tea and wonderfully huge slabs of creamy cakes.  The windows were steamed up and it was beginning to get dark outside.  We chatted and laughed and ate and drank and it was a wonderful day.

What would you do to celebrate your next Hygge Day?

I would want to spend it with friends and our children.  I'd like to have the fire lit, fresh bread in the oven, a stew in the slow cooker.  The children would be playing outdoors or upstairs with the Lego.  We'd have our crochet hooks and wool and could crochet and natter and eat all day long while the children play.

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