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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Lucy Mangan

DARK SECRETS: Digested week let us focus on the few brief bright spots we can | Vintage Vibes

Closeup of Paltrow smiling at the Academy Awards in November.
Reasons to be cheerful: Gwyneth Paltrow loves a 6pm dinner and early beddy-byes. Photograph: Caroline Brehman/EPA

Monday

Ah, Blue Monday – it seems to come round quicker every year, no? For those of you not familiar with the term, it denotes the third Monday of January, which is alleged to be the most depressing day of the year. Collectively, I mean – obviously each of us has a birthday, plus a year coming up that will inescapably include bad haircuts, disappointing Vinted purchases and expensively untraceable leaks in the home. And Prue Leith’s leaving Bake Off.

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