I’ve joined the AA (no, not that one) – The Times

Do you need an emergency plumber? A midnight blue Loaf sofa (never used)? Four tickets to that sold-out Coldplay gig at Wembley? A fox red labrador puppy (£1,400 each)? A giant disco ball? Dinner recommendations for the south of France? A babysitter for 6pm? No matter how obscure, mysterious or urgent your request, you can guarantee an answer, pinging like magic on to your phone, in minutes. That plumber? Here’s his mobile. The puppy? Yours — can you collect tomorrow? The disco ball? I’ll just dust ours off from the garage. The source of this digital wizardry? A WhatsApp group on my phone called AA. No, not that one (although living in the back end of nowhere does drive numbers up). This AA stands for Absolutely Anything — and it does exactly what its name suggests. Ultra-exclusive, all-female and designed as a networking group crossed with a reselling platform, AA has become a lifeline to working women like me who moved from London to the Suffolk countryside and crave contact with like-minded others. Membership stands at nearly 700, just 20 of whom I know offline but many of whom I’ve since spoken to, met at networking events or bought items
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