Patrik Hadenius: Now comes the day – and makes you free!

Now you get quiet. Now comes the next week.

we Had access to the collected health data, we would be able to note how the common pulse goes down during the days between christmas and new year.

Linguistically seen this calm in the preposition between. I find the 104 assemblies with between in SAOL, from intermission to mellanöra. Between makes no noise, it is Swedish enough, that in semi-skimmed milk and a snack. A mid season, not much is happening.

just over 100 years old, the first evidence is from 1893. In Norwegian called the day mellomjul or romjul. In German, the term zwischen den Jahren, ’between the years’. The English have boxing week launched, corresponding mainly mellandagsrean. Regardless of what we call the days, it is a special break between the two festivals. As klämdagar, though a bit longer.

in Addition to the compulsory sale devoid of the day nowadays, the traditions and requirements. Sooner was going on the christmas celebration until well after the new year. But, when the christmas for most people now take the end on boxing day so there arises a gap. Or how to find it on their own, kravlösa traditions.

When I was small I had godisförbud. I had chosen it myself and at the time I was no tooth, so it was not a major sacrifice. In addition, there were exceptions. I gave myself the right to eat candy in the day. The exemption was based on the grounds that it was a kind of non-existent time. After christmas, took the end of the year, and the next did not start until the new year's day. In between it was empty. A little candy couldn't hurt.

not free. Some work for the rest of us will be able to rest, and the other rushes to get ready before the year runs out. A lot of penetrates out into the mellandagsrean.

In some cases, however, the commercial agitation received a counterforce. The DN's editorial writer Lisa Magnusson is probably not alone in wanting to compensate their christmas purchases. On Thursday, she wrote on the DN's leader board if mellandagsrean: ”I'm boycotting it this year! You can find me gubbsovande on the couch.”

in Order to try to get the hang of what we fill the day with more than gubbsovande and shopping, you can look on Instagram. Where we show while not exactly what we do, but we show up to the ideal. Go back to the summer of 2018, and see what photos you and your friends put out. It is sunny and happy, with family and friends, a drink and some food, an excursion, a book and a bike ride. We slows a bit and form us also.

I look at some of the Swedish leader's flows, Ulf Kristersson, Stefan Löfven, and Annie Lööf. The images are mostly about the work. But the put then and then the more personal pictures. In the summer, they show up just in time restful, responsible vacationing. Ulf Kristersson has for example acquired chickens.

But it was in the summer. I go back to the day in 2017. It is empty, I find nothing. The party leaders have the day off for real. And with Annie Lööf, who is otherwise happy to show pictures of the children and jogging, is completely absent on Instagram.

in the year. Stefan Löfven told DN on Friday that it will be a different kind of winter break with the negotiations for the government. But he adds: ”To sit with one or preferably a few of Ulla's grandchildren in your lap and read something – it is such which provides the power.”

Not even the president has completely managed to put the seizure on the day. They are no man's land. You are free!