“Are we ready to go back to ‘normality’?”
Last Monday, around 3pm, while lost in a Zoom work call, my phone went into meltdown. "What you doing 8 March, bench picnic?” “GIRLS... 29 MARCH, my garden, book it in” “12 APRIL... booking the day off to sort hair/feet/sit in pub garden, you in?” “21 June!!!!! [flamenco emoji many times]” My WhatsApp was glowing with a stream of memes – a woman spinning a toilet seat around her neck in a pub loo, the original SATC squad strutting their way to a big night out and pictures of calendars with 21 June highlighted for hugging and drinking and calls to make it a national holiday. My desolate diary was suddenly packed and I was giddy with excitement, booking tables with abandon,…