Hello and welcome to this week's edition of The Independent's lifestyle newsletter.
It's that time of the year again. It's time to start having serious conversations. You know, the very important business that involves rallying together your friends to discuss a potential group holiday this summer? Pinning people down people can be hard – my trip plans rarely make it out of group chat – but once you've got past all of the admin and actually step off the plane… there's so much to look forward to. That is, until things go wrong.
While going on holiday with your friends should be a doddle, a new survey has revealed that one in five Brits have fallen out with friends as a result of a holiday spat. Sure, you normally get along like a house on fire, you share similar interests, and you've never argued before. So what is it about holidaying that can cause a friendship meltdown? This week, Helen Salter looks at why tension and in-fighting seems to break out when friends go away together, and what you should be doing to prevent upset.
Elsewhere, Helen Coffey looks into the viral and unhinged "fridgescaping" trend, which sees influencers decorate the inside of their fridges with themed pictures, pottery, wicker receptacles and candles. Yes: some people really are putting framed paintings inside their fridges alongside their scrag ends of cheese and tubs of marg.
As Coffey argues, the humble fridge – literally one of the most mundanely practically, unbeatably useful appliances of the modern age – has now been reduced to yet another performative status symbol. Fuelled by an online landscape in which form is increasingly supposed to trump function despite our hectic daily lives, it represents just one more way to fall short of the aesthetic ideal, she writes. Read more here.
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