It's all about Girl Power!

It’s been proven – female friendships are just what we all need right now

- Sam Carlisle

A scientist has just discovered that adult female giraffes who spend time with lots of other females live longer than less sociable animals. Monica Bond mapped a giraffe social network in Africa and found female giraffes that socialised in groups with at least three other females are more likely to survive than solitary individuals.

Way to go! Girl gangs should be prescribed by GPs because they are the greatest mental health support in this pandemic – even if we can’t get together in person.

Actor and Killing Eve writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge says, ‘Friendships are the greatest romances of our lives.’

And she’s absolutely right. Mum friends at my daughter’s special needs school have been there for me in the darkest days of the pandemic.