What you might have missed in November
102-year-old Dr Gladys McGarey on living well; India Knight on midlife beauty; what happens when you leave your job and lose your identity & facing down the party season sober
Hello Shifters,
Back in the summer I started doing a monthly round-up to make it easier for you to catch up on everything you might have missed in the previous four weeks. And then I stopped. No idea why. I just dropped the ball. One of many. Anyway, somehow it’s December and I thought I’d resurrect it, so here’s a roundup of a few things that happened on The Shift in November. Starting with Substack’s UK writers party in London last week. (Here’s me looking extraordinarily pink with
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I am very bad at both remembering to take photos and then actually taking them. As you can see. But before you dismiss this as me bragging about my social life (laughs hollowly), what’s significant about this party is that it was my first as a person who no longer drinks. I wrote all about my experience of giving up booze a couple of weeks ago. As an introvert who’d rather be on the sofa with a book, a boxset, and Sausage the cat, I was dreading it. How the hell was I going to get through all thos…