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Luckily For Me,

January passed in a blur of extra annual leave and an extended long weekend to make that summer holiday feeling last as long as possible. So, it’s only now in February, that I’ve started thinking about 2024 and the year ahead. I was thinking it should be a quiet year, with work and not much else organised. Then the reality hit me. This is my youngest daughter’s finalcolumnist Meg Bignell has her two eldest entering their final year of high school, too. Read how she feels about it on page 28.

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