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Tis the season of festive FOMO. FEMAIL asked people to be searingly honest about the overhyped pursuits and events that everyone else seems to want to enjoy but they actually loathe. ....
AS the pandemic took hold last year, there was a time when Lush boss Mark Constantine wondered how long the business could survive. In the same week that Lush co-founder Liz Bennett – formerly Liz Weir – died, governments throughout the world forced shops to close. “It was really a bleak week. At that stage, I thought I just couldn’t see how we were going to come through,” he says. “Obviously, if you’re mainly a retail business and all of your shops… How long have you got before you, you know? Six weeks, maybe two months. How long have you got?” ....
The tears poured out as I sat shaking in the office loo. Consumed by panic, I was so sure I would physically burst that I tried to hold myself together by zipping my coat up tight and pulling the hood over my head. Slowly the terror subsided but I was left feeling bewildered. One minute I’d been laughing with colleagues, the next I was reading a work email about a teenager with cancer. The words on the screen grew bigger as the space around me closed in. I saw actually saw disjointed visions of hospital corridors, lights and my darling sister in a white bed. I fled, but only made it as far as the loos. ....