Some milestones hit harder than others. Your 40th birthday is a more bittersweet occasion than your 21st; your 60th wedding anniversary deserves its own Nobel prize. So when a mysteriously heavy black envelope plopped through the letterbox, I was intrigued to open it and find a membership card from Soho House. I haven’t laid eyes on my existing card for years, always scanning into the Houses on my iPhone. A physical card? How quaintly retro.
But this, it transpired, wasn’t just any card. It was a commemorative card designed by the artist Peter Blake. What was it commemorating? Why, my 20th anniversary as a member.
