New Year resolutions face assault of old habits

IF Christmas is the time of excess, can the New Year’s Resolution be far behind?

Whisper it softly folks, it's that time of year again the period when normally sane adults make outrageous promises about their own future conduct as if they were politicians in the middle of a general election campaign.

It's a natural reaction given that most of us have just eaten our own weight in turkey and Christmas pudding and spent money as if the euro was going to be replaced by a new currency tomorrow.