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“Have you been away?”. It’s the question ringing out across offices up and down the country as we filter back to work after the August sojourn. And with most of us a little sunkissed – whether you’ve been in Positano or Padstow – everyone’s looking a tad more healthy. Gen Z would call it a “glow up”. I speak from experience; 10 months of the year I have a pallor best described as “underside of newborn fish”, but owing to some Irish “people-of-the-fields” ancestry I turn a tad more tawny in the sun. Time was when a man tan was the stuff of cheesy daytime TV presenters, so brilliantly pastiched in Bridget Jones’ Diary by the mahoganied lothario that seduces her mother.