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I don’t mind admitting that when I first spotted this photo it had me perfectly and beautifully confused.
There is a shelf, like my grandmother’s mantelpiece that should sit above a wood burning stove. But on that mantelshelf there are the kind of plants that I’d expect to see outside in my garden, trailing down from the rockery wall, springing up from the acid soil.
And there is the light that could be coming from a cosy floor lamp. But as I turn my attention to the shuttered door and from the frosted glass to the reflected sunlight I know I’ve got it all wrong.
It has the warmth and cosiness, the gezeligheid or hygge of a warm open fire in a room with sofas and blankets and glass of mulled something or the other. And yet it’s outside in the shadows of a sunny day.
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