People have winced at the idea of me doing Dry January in 2021, saying things like “I don’t think I could get through this without a drink”. Others have met me with a polar opposite response; “you might as well, nothing to drink for anyway”. 

I’m not sure about you, but during lockdown, I found that people either drank more to get through the horrific daily news headlines, or drank less as an opportunity to hit reset on their far-too-busy lives.