LUKKELOVEN (3)

It's amazing how quickly supermarkets have taken to the freedom given by the liberalisation of the lukkeloven ("closing law"). My local Netto will be open during the forthcoming holidays every day from 8.00 am to 22.00 pm. The only exceptions are Christmas Eve, the main day in Denmark, and New Year's Eve, where they will close at 15.00 pm; and New Year's Day, where they will close completely (presumably the idea is that nobody will shop then, since they will be too hungover).

Following in their wake will be the local cinema, where we have decided to open during the holidays for the first time, from 26-30 December. We are showing Walking With Dinosaurs and the new Disney film Frozen, both of which should be attractive to parents at a loss as to how to entertain their children. If we can get as much custom as the supermarkets obviously do, then we should be OK going into 2014.

Walter Blotscher