‘SEEING FRIENDS SHOULD BE A PLEASURE, NOT A PRISON SENTENCE’
There are friends who make you smile, then there are the ones who make you laugh until you are snorting, wheezing and wiping your mascara away with a table napkin. They are A-listers, the keepers.
As life rolls on, with all its 50-something pressures on time and resources, I’ve reached the conclusion that I don’t want to waste time on social commitments I’m not committed to.
The days when friends were on tap daily in the classroom/student bar/office/children’s school gates are gone. Keeping in contact requires a delicately negotiated ‘freedom pass’ from home, often
