And So We Begin Again

Riddle greets the New Year

Dear Reader,

Firstly the Riddle team’s best wishes for a happy New Year! With good timing, the weather takes a turn for the actual wintery worse – just in time for New Year resolutions and health kicks…

I’ve never seen the point of dry January. Possibly this is because I am an alcoholic (this job may yet push me over the brink) or perhaps – even more tragically – I clearly have so little social life I have no need to sober up and detox. Given London’s/ the South East’s obsession with keeping fit (the Evening Standard was talking about office parties in gyms and yoga studios last month for God’s sake), one suspects many will be worrying over their first 10K or downward dog at the start of 2016 a trifle too seriously. Someone just give me a Single Malt and be done with it…..

In order to help in diverting you from re-invigorated physical exertion our motoring columnist Marc Stickley is intoxicated by the fumes at the 2015 Race of Champions and tries out Volvo’s imposing new XC90 Inscription. Our resident foodie Sophie Aghdami heads to Soho to contemplate mouthwatering Israeli cooking at Palomar and our Creative Director lays down his camera (not literally…..it’s a fashionable head for heights this month in our shoot) to ponder the latest coaching moves and options for Eddie Jones in his rugby column. Keeping on that sweaty and athletic thread, Sam Clark chats with fitness guru Matt Kay – just in case that last whisky of 2015 did result in that New Year’s health resolution…..or a dry January… uurggh.

Here’s to 2016!

Best Wishes,

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