Did you manage to guzzle some Easter eggs … or are you banned from nibbling by the "health police".

Well, at least I hope you enjoyed the break. But back to reality…

Final data for the fourth quarter of 2012 showed an economy stricken by falling exports, declining business investment, poor productivity and consumer caution – the savings ratio is the highest for 15 years (let’s just hope that the ‘Cyprus Solution’ doesn’t hit these shores).

The Office of National Statistics confirmed that the economy shrunk by 0.3 per cent, unchanged on the previous estimates, having expanded 0.9 per cent in the third quarter. It reported exports down 1.6 per cent – the current account deficit, the balance between UK imports and exports, jumped to £57.7 billion last year from £20.3 billion in 2011, the worst for nearly a quarter of a century.

The exports hit shows just how vulnerable we are to developments in Europe ... which incidentally would remain the case were we to pull out of the EU. Low investment is a long term worry – a plague on British industry for decades.

The jury is still out on how we have fared in the first quarter of this year.

Despite the severe weather which is bound to have hit the economy, especially retail sales, construction, agriculture and leisure, many pundits, and more importantly the OECD, think there has probably been modest growth – helped by an improved service sector picture – so a politically-embarrassing triple-dip may yet be avoided.

And the US economy grew more than first thought in the final quarter of last year, up from 0.1 per cent to 0.4 per cent. The first quarter of this year is also looking good.

But say a prayer for poor Cyprus where, if we have problems with austerity, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

Unemployment is set to soar.

And if it had an over-blown banking sector fuelled largely by hot money what then of Luxembourg?

Or is that just plain scare-mongering?

Yet, who in this climate would be brave enough to dismiss that one out of hand?

It seems the euro crisis is a bit like a leaking roof – as soon as you patch one hole water starts pouring through another.

A sun-tanned Jim Wood-Smith – no, not Cyprus – will be back next week.

Adrian Quin is head of the Birmingham office at Investec Wealth & Investment