> The Nordic readers amongst you are probably looking at your screens as though I’m explaining that ice is cold and the sun is hot. But to this rest of you, and

> The Nordic readers amongst you are probably looking at your screens as though I’m explaining that ice is cold and the sun is hot. But to this rest of you, and my past self, this is unheard of. We've one-upped them all, because over here duvets are unheard of, let alone duvet covers :D But seriously, I (unfortunately?) live in a hot and humid part of the world and I suppose because of that duvets and its covers are unnecessary here. We've just got bedsheets, blankets, pillow-covers. This reminds me. I went to university in America. From a Walmart nearby I bought one of those packaged set of things you put on a bed — "comforter", "bedspread", bedsheet, something with an elastic around it, pillow covers etc. I know it was these things because the cover had them written on it. I unpacked them, and I have no idea which one is a comforter, which one is a bedspread etc. Nor did I know the order of how I put these onto the bed, what one goes on top of what other thing etc. And I didn't know in between which layers I should be sleeping in. My not-very-friendly roommate and his girlfriend probably thought I was a moron for not knowing this.