It just keeps getting more and more exciting for Hello Hygge… this morning I was invited to appear live on TV 2’s God Morgen Norge (Good Morning Norway) to talk about hygge in Britain! You can watch the recording here (my part starts at around 3.45, but of course if you speak Norwegian it’s worth watching…
Category: Interviews
Hygge and happiness with Meik Wiking
Got a hyggestund? I’m in a serious state of hyggehjørnet, so let’s hyggesnak about our favourite topic: that’s right, it’s hygge! And if you’re wondering what these fabulous terms mean, you’d better get your hands on a copy of The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well by Meik Wiking. I’m the…
Competition time: ‘Tis the season to be Jolly
How is it already November? I swear we only hit September about 13 seconds ago. Now Halloween (and my birthday) are out of the way, festive fever is in full force, and it’s all systems go at Hello Hygge HQ. For some people (Scrooges, pure Scrooges), 1st November is too early to be thinking about…
Claus M. Lohman: ‘Everybody can hygge’
I need to start this post with another thank you to all the new followers I’ve collected since my last post. I’ve been absolutely overwhelmed by the enthusiasm you guys have expressed for hygge. I always knew it was something special, but the excitement people have expressed to me over the last few days has totally…
A teenager’s conversion to Christianity: An interview with Leon Ronan
Brighton is often described as ‘the UK’s most godless city’. With more Brightonians than ever choosing not to commit themselves to a religion in the census, with a particular prevalence of non-religious young people, it was somewhat surprising to find out that 18-year old Leon Ronan recently converted to Christianity. “I was always an agnostic,”…
The Soup du Journalism 2012 roundup!
Hello and welcome to this very special post where I summarise this soupy, soupy year with a rip-roaring ride through this very blog and the most popular entries since its conception in March! An interview with Sophia Danielsson-Waters: Around the world in not-80 days Let us start with my interview with my friend Sia about…
Lucy Setters: An interview with a psychic
Are you one of the 20% of the population classed as a ‘sensitive’, or in other words, someone with a developed level of psychic ability? Lucy Setters, a tarot card reader and psychic from Brighton, is one of the 20% who has honed her psychic powers to connect with the spirit world. Lucy believes that…
Hexus: The man under the hat
“I’d been interested in electronic music since the beginning of secondary school, but my first hearings of drum and bass inspired a sense of rhythm and energy that I’d never really felt before.” Chris Andrew, aka. Hexus, is an electronic and drum and bass music artist from Brighton. Chris has arrived at a sound he…
The British National Party: Who are you?
The British National Party is undoubtedly controversial. Throughout the 2010 general election, Nick Griffin became a widely hated figure in the British political system, appearing on a particularly memorable episode of Question Time, where he was met with contempt from audience members throughout the show, and defaced images of the party leader’s face appeared across…
Va Va Voom: A Beginner’s Guide to Sports Car Racing
Alright, I confess. Prior to this interview, I knew quite literally not one thing about sports car racing. Apart from, perhaps, that sports cars are similar to normal cars, except they are constructed a bit differently to allow for optimal racing prowess. So, in a sense, speaking to Simon Clark was an exercise in education,…
Dulces sueños, second language shirkers!
In 2004, the decision was taken by the government to remove the compulsory status of foreign language GCSEs. Although this move may have left some schoolchildren jumping for joy when they could leave their un deux trois behind for good, it wasn’t necessarily a fantastic way of quashing the stereotype of the ‘Brit on holiday’,…
An interview with Sophia Danielsson-Waters: Around the world in not-80 days
It’s one of those things a lot of people give as a response to the age-old question, ‘What would you do if you won the lottery?’ It usually comes just after ‘I’d buy a mansion with tennis courts and its own zoo on my own private island’ and just before ‘I’ve kind of always wanted…
This is Art Attack: Neil Buchanan interview
Hello! Today’s news is that my Neil Buchanan interview has made it onto Pi Media’s website: http://www.pimedia.org.uk/features/art-attack-an-interview-with-neil-buchanan.html There is a chance it could also make it into the print copy of the newspaper, rather than the magazine, but this all depends on whether a). There is space left for it and b). Whether an interview…
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