Danish Christmas baking, craft culture and how to survive a Scandinavian winter

Glue guns poised, it's DIY season in Denmark! How Danes are baking for the festive season, art attack, plus surviving 'winter depression' in the Nordic countries. Welcome to The Darkness...

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned (I definitely have) but it gets dark in Denmark at this time of year. Really dark. Really fast. So swiftly in fact that it can be tricky to tell what time of day it is without wearing a watch. I’ve spoken to lots of people this week about what Danes call ‘vinterdepression’ or winter depression, as well as SAD (Seasonal Aff…