Now I love the idea of hygge. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, which is the place to go to define Danish words, hygge is a quality of cosiness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being. Love it. I have bought all of the books, read all of the articles and wished myself Scandinavian\u00a0a thousand times over but let’s be honest, I am northern. Northerners know all about cosiness. My Mum made my home cosy as generations of northern Pixie women have done before her. Cosiness is what we do.<\/p>\n
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We draw the curtains to “keep the night out”, we “turn the big light off” so as to have the softer light of the lamps. There’s always a brew on the go. In winter we come home get our comfies on and spend our evenings wearing something fleece lined.\u00a0As for food? Have you ever eaten scouse?<\/p>\n
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I think there’s a message here that I need to learn about appreciating what you have and enjoying that rather than trying to be something else. I need to ponder.<\/p>\n
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If you are cosying up your home for winter then it’s blankets, brews and candles all the way. My favourites are below.<\/p>\n
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Next tea lighter holders like these <\/a>or these<\/a>. Scented candles are gorgeous but sometimes it can be a bit cloying after a while. Tea lights fix this.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I love a blanket. I am saving for a Lauren Ashton chunky knit<\/a> in bright pink but for retro warmth get a cellular blanket<\/a> for \u00a335.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Proper luxury and I’ve said it before but The White Company cashmere bed socks<\/a>. Swoony.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n For a good brew, you need a quality mug. I favour something with a slight curve for cradling. It needs to be a decent size and be careful of a lip on the cup as it just leads to spillage. These either meet my exacting standards or are so cute I don’t care. This cactus mug<\/a> ticks the boxes but this Moomin <\/a>one doesn’t but it’s the Moomins! I have the Moz mug<\/a> from John Lewis which is a good drinking mug. My inner magpie loves these gold Next <\/a>efforts but the handle doesn’t look comfy – see, Scousers take cosy seriously. And look at this beauty!<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n There you go. Go home tonight. Get your comfies on, make a brew and some cheese on toast, draw the curtains and turn the big light off, get the candles going and make yourself cosy under a blanket on the sofa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the glorious tradition of cosiness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[8,172],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/cosy.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27694,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27023\/revisions\/27694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}