2.6. After a year of lockdown and pandemic living, is there even a 'normal' to go back to?

This week, we're taking stock a year after the first lockdown was announced, and wondering whether it will take finally going 'back to normal' for us to realise how much has changed. Plus, Charlie's dipping a toe back into the app-dating waters (with pub-garden dates a possibility again) and Frankie's taken her first step back into the world of work after having a baby - but with no childcare, it's just as hard as you'd imagine.  Plus, we're talking eye-gazing and Instagram buddhism (thanks to Orlando Bloom) and discussing wine in a tin - is it the future? To hear more from us, sign up at TheWingwoman.co.uk to receive our free weekly newsletter every other Sunday. Or get in touch at thewingwomanofficial.com. Episode links: Hollywood, Anti-Asian hate and me - Charlotte Mei, Buro 247 #StopAsianHate 'We Need To Understand The Often-Hidden Racist Rhetoric In The UK, That Has Been Omnipresent All My Life' - Susie Lau, Grazia Change.org: COVID19 Anti-Racism Group (CARG) against Racism targeting British East Asian People Go Fund Me: #StopAsianHate Emily Ratajkowski has posted pictures of herself in labour. That’s nothing . . . - Frankie Graddon, The Times Orlando Bloom on life with Katy Perry and their new baby, Daisy - Hannah Swerling, The Times NICE - Malbec in a tin