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Friendship Month is always a special time of year for the Oddfellows, however 2021’s celebrations felt very different from the rest. While we’d been there for each other during the pandemic, we’d really missed having a laugh side-by-side. In September, that all changed.

2020 has seen many people reassess their lives and reconsider where they live, whether that’s leaving a long-term home to be nearer family, downsizing once children have flown the nest, or simply moving to somewhere better suited to changes in lifestyle.

If you pressed pause on a trip away this year, there’s no reason to stop your taste buds from travelling. We invited our resident foodie, Michele Boustead, to put the latest trend in mail order, restaurant-quality meal boxes to the test, and ‘sent her off’ to Cornwall, France and India.

The pandemic prevented many of us from being with one another. We were keen to find out if being kept apart brought us closer together, and if the past 18 months has changed how we value our friendships. We asked 2,000 over 60s in the UK to tell us their thoughts.

There are lots of places you might go to find friendship. We asked our members for their advice on the best things to do to find like-minded people.