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The Midults' guide to… life after the pandemic
As The Midults’ popular agony aunt column moves from the Telegraph Magazine to Stella, Annabel Rivkin and Emilie McMeekan discuss the disasters, anxieties and calamities facing British women post-pandemicIt all began, we suppose, when we decided to reject the self-cancelling “I’m fine!” and to treat “How are you?” as a question.Once upon a time, the answer was, “Oh, I’m absolutely fine…” Now, it’s more nuanced. How are you, Annabel? “Absolutely fine… but I’ve been up since 3:45am and I have a suppurating wound on my forehead from the non-cancerous thing they said they were going to scrape off but actually gouged out PLUS I’ve given up my lockdown smoking habit and I feel certain that, if there are any squabbles today, they will be my fault.”How are you, Emilie? “Well I’m absolutely fine but from the moment I woke up this morning I have been wanting to get back into bed; I’ve got runner’s heel when I don’t even run and every time I say goodbye to someone I truly believe they will never want to speak to me again.”The worm began to turn, one night when Annabel was at a dinner, sitting with four successful, vaguely famous women.