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As the New Year starts, I can already feel hope building like the joyful song of the thrush – Telegraph.co.uk
The impatient could not resist setting off a few rockets as darkness fell. Each pop in the sky felt like a gesture of bloody-minded defiance

I suspect that once the dogs were walked, the horses safely stabled, the fires lit, the special bottle opened and the oven filled with something anything that wasnt turkey leftovers, the thoughts of long-lost friends and family reached further than ever, with phones and video calls blossoming in consequence.
Our own evening featured a virtual gathering of friends, scattered across time zones, attendees drifting in and out, most with young children asleep upstairs, and most clutching cocktails more…
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