I HAVE a friend who is robustly stylish and always seems to have her finger on the pulse of all the latest fads. Be it kitchen gadgets, clothes, hairstyles, home decor or technology, I’ve never met the Joneses she’s keeping up with, but they seem like hard taskmasters.

Sadly, her ability to spot a hot new micro trend at a thousand paces has failed to rub off on me. But I still like to know what’s hip and happening, even if I am more likely to be seen wearing a practical cagoule than a chic scarf-coat or oversized blazer (yes, I had to Google “jacket fashions 2024”).

January may be a bleak and barren month for the most part, but it is brightened up immeasurably by the endless slew of weird and wonderful predictions being made for the year ahead. One of my favourites in this vein was compiled by The Washington Post.

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Among the miscellany deemed “out” are pregnancy announcements, hard launches, cottage cheese, disco silver, lofi music, the Roman Empire, abandoning the social media........

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