January isn’t the right time to become a ‘New You’, as if the old you is a skin that you can shed like a snake. No, no

Forgive me for being Captain Obvious here, but my god, January is such a gloomy month.

December would probably be just as grim too, if we didn’t have the fairy lights and tinsel and the Jackson 5 Christmas album on repeat to keep us distracted. It’s as if we all morph into ravenous magpies for a few weeks every year, scavenging for more and more sparkly things to satisfy us.