My lockdown agony: Harrods’ food hall is shut
MANY of us are worrying about making ends meet or sending our children to school as lockdown rumbles on.
One columnist, however, has shared details of her extravagant experience in upmarket Kensington during the pandemic – and been branded tone deaf in return.
Shruti Advani, who detailed her ‘luxury lockdown’ in an article for the Financial Times, admitted spending £95 an hour for private tutoring for her two children and investing in £420-a-piece designer silk pyjamas for the ‘dullest’ Zoom calls.
The freelancer, who revealed she was ‘blessed with an inheritance as well as a venture-capitalist husband’, also claimed that her first action when lockdown started was to triple her order at posh florists Freddie’s Flowers – something she felt was essential.
In a piece that may seem somewhat out of touch to the average reader, Mrs Advani, who usually writes on private banking, lamented her difficulties in sourcing deliveries from Ocado.
She also complained about Harrods shutting its food hall.
She wrote: ‘The food halls at Harrods, which had served customers throughout the Second World War, shuttered early in the current crisis [so] we had to find our sustenance elsewhere.’ Mrs Advani also turned two spare rooms into accommodation for a full-time nanny and a friend who needed to isolate.
Readers were left bemused and divided by the eye-opening piece, with some even questioning if it was satirical.
One tweeted: ‘I really hope my wealth will also reach such heights that, during a global pandemic, my largest concern will be obtaining advice from a personal shopper and sourcing silk PJs for Zoom calls.’
Another commented: ‘This is particularly unpleasant right now.’ Another simply wrote: ‘Is this parody?’