Well Christmas is now an almost distant memory and 2024 has blustered its way in with heavy rain and stormy weather. Let’s all hope that is not an omen for what’s to come in the next 12 months. The start of the new year is a time for reflection, a time to make those resolutions (some of you have probably already failed on them) and it is also a time for hope. Personally, I find this time of year quite maudlin, probably because the weather is always so depressing and my birthday, which is fast looming, always falls around the date of the accurately called ‘Blue Monday’. This year Monday, Januar…