Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
The festive firework season is upon us as countless venues across the kingdom celebrated National Day with bursts of explosive colours in the sky to mark the joyous occasion.
As an enthusiast of the planned break or even ‘healthy hedonism’, as How to Hygge author Signe Johansen calls it, I was delighted when earlier this year I came across what I recently learned is a word that has been around for some time: hygge. Yes, I’m late to the party as I usually am, for the term really took off in 2016 with it being added to the Collins Words of the Year list, second only to Brexit.
Being old, in my mid-seventies, disabled, full of aches and just not knowing what the next day will bring.
