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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Jessica Salter

This is what 40 looks like for cool middle-class Londoners

Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan in Channel 4 show Catastrophe - (BBC/Merman/Scott Kershaw)

When 41-year-old school friends Annabel and Sophie went clubbing recently, they met, just as they always used to, for a few warm-up drinks first. But things looked a little different to their teenage years.

The pre-venue was Sophie’s allotment in Tottenham. Then they’d head onto a day clubbing event at Drumsheds – the former IKEA warehouse – which has a parent-of-young-kids-friendly finish time of 10pm.

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