It is that season, the flurry of Christmas is over, the New Year’s resolutions made and broken and the long haul into spring starts with dismal mornings and long, dark, dank evenings.

Fear not, there is light on the horizon. It comes in the form of the increasingly popular ski holiday – which gives those of us foolish enough to think we are fit to ski an excuse for adopting strange positions near walls and running up and down stairs.