It’s time to take down the decorations, which, from The Diary’s point of view, means a sad goodbye to all those brightly coloured cards we arranged lovingly around the office.

Ice skating featured heavily in this year’s crop (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Travers Smith), while a host of international firms once again failed to resist the temptation to remind us how many offices they have (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Norton Rose).