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‘Accept the things we cannot change’

polly.bryan@futurenet.com

@pollyrose21

HAPPY new year first and foremost, although with the Covid-19 pandemic dragging on and, as I write, three-quarters of the nation in tier four, the first week of the year has lost a little of its usual magic. Certainly, the prospect of “dry January”, “Veganuary” or “sugar free” January are all looking rather bleak and uninspiring amid another lockdown.

I spent Christmas and New Year without any of my Bechtolsheimer family for the first time ever. It

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