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New Day Cafe: The Hurkle Durkle [1]

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Date: 2025-01-27

“On vacation, you might suppress the urge to seize the day. Instead, you sink deeper into the sheets, disappearing under the duvet like the moon behind a cloud.

By all appearances, you are doing nothing. But, quite the opposite: You are hurkle-durkling.

Hurkle-durkling is not a cutesy term generated by artificial intelligence or the travel PR machine. It’s a 19th-century Scottish word that the Dictionaries of the Scots Language defines as “to lie in bed or lounge about when one should be up.” The practice is experiencing a resurgence: a calming antidote to the frenzy of travel, a finger to the lips — shhh — to the clamor outside your hotel door.

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