Let’s be honest, few of us had the Christmas and new year break we had envisaged. We may not have been “at work”, but having worked in our homes for so much of last year, it didn’t feel quite as good as it should have done to spend another couple of weeks there, even if it was on the sofa rather than the laptop.

We also had subdued new year celebrations. It was mostly about kicking the old one into touch than looking forward to 2021, in the belief that whatever it had in store for us just had to be an improvement.

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