Never have I felt quite so grateful to have been on a rejuvenating holiday as I did on my first day back at work post Christmas this year. Breezing in with a healthy glow to my cheeks and a spring in my step, I listened to colleagues’ listless recounting of week-long ’flu with Emily in Paris boxset binges, hours of snarled-up car journeys on dutiful visits to relatives and relentless Westcountry rain. My boss wasn’t even in as he was suffering from a stomach bug.
I felt a pang of guilt as I
