The single's guide to re-emerging from Valentine’s Day lush and fabulous again

So you’ve been dumped. Maybe you saw it coming, or maybe, like me, it came out of the blue. In my case, by text, after two years of being told I was the love of someone’s life.
Oh dear. And now February 14th is bearing down on us like a runaway truck full of hearts and flowers, so that if we don’t leap from its path, we will be squashed flat all over again.