April might well be the cruellest month, as T.S. Eliot once wisely asserted, but January is surely the most challenging. And how could it not be? It’s preceded on New Year’s Eve by a blaze of misguided optimism, only to begin, one day later, in a cloud of morning-after anguish. Then there are 31 full days of relentless resolutions, and the bitter reproach when they fail (which they always do; what a time to give up alcohol), before, at last, you come clattering into…
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