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Landslides, handball, play 101, Denmark's green King and how I've just been publicly shamed in a yoga class - it's your Nordic Week

At the end of the longest week, just after the end of the longest month, it was all starting to feel a bit much. A Nordic winter reliably lasts from October until March, so the idea that I had AT LEAST another month of cold, dark, wind and driving rain felt daunting.

Lego Man’s away for work and I’m solo parenting, dealing with all manner of mini-Viking…