How Did Friendships Become Another Life Admin Chore?

The Whatsapp groups I have with my friends have changed. Once full of cat memes, random screengrabs and all the best gossip, they’ve now become a series of terse exchanges over diary dates that never seem to result in any of us meeting up IRL.

‘‘Guys, it’s been three months since I moved into my new at,’ my friend announced recently, ‘and no one’s been round yet. How about we book in a Sunday over the summer and I’ll make everyone brunch?’ It was a generous o er from my mate, who really should have been giving us all a bollocking for being bad friends in the first place, and we all 100% meant it when we enthusiastically said we’d love to.

And then we started suggesting dates…

You can read the rest of the article in 9 July copy of Grazia magazine.