Student fees, rocketing rents, soaring property prices… It's tough out there, so why not move back into your old room, sit down at the family table and let mummy and daddy get you a nice, cosy ready meal from Waitrose.
Neighbours and food lovers from afar come to this cosy space for a fresh meal, good wine and cocktails.
All wined out, we retire to Ockenden for a Michelin-starred meal and a cosy manor house bedroom that the whipping May wind seems only to improve.
Low lighting, flickering candles, high-backed wooden benches and an ingelnook fireplace created a cosy atmosphere for a wintry meal that was strong on seasonal produce.
But there's nothing cosy and nostalgic about missing days of meals, turning the heating off for two consecutive winters and every bloody day and night in between.
The post-food cosy daze that everyone has after their traditional meal turned into the pre-work tetchy panic that every doctor has before a night shift.
There's a word in Danish, hygge, which means having a good time with friends and being cosy – and sitting down at a table to share a meal together is a big key part of that.
We've made a cosy camp with tarpaulins, and we plan to share a hot meal this evening at the same time as our friends across on the other chimney.
As soon as the restaurant's doors open for the evening meal, diners flood into the upstairs dining room and cosy downstairs bar.
14-16 WEnd End Arcade, NG1 6JP; 0115 947 0855; aubreystraditionalcreperie.com Homemade Cafe, Nottingham Cosy cafe that prides itself on the freshness of its meals.
As well as the cheap meals, and great communal kitchen, the hostel has cosy communal spaces for reading, browsing the vinyl collection and generally settling down.
