Tanni’s View
Baroness
Grey-Thompson DBE writes for Ability Needs
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HERE IS NO one that can dispute that this has been an odd year, but last week I realised something that I didn’t think would happen, and that is my passport has run out. I am privileged in so many ways and that I still travel a reasonable amount for work, but to have not taken my passport out of the drawer since March is a bit strange. I hadn’t even thought about it until I decided to do some tidying up and remembered that I was meant to do something about it. Of course, I don’t have any photos that I can send or any that seem to be appropriate to scan and although I am not shielding, I have just got used to not going out. I went out in September to work in London and haven’t really been out since then.
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the supermarket (husband has been doing the shopping) and have had one trip to the hospital to drop off some clothes for a family member who had to have a short stay and that is it.
Like many people our Christmas plans have changed, so instead of visiting friends we are now at home. So our family trip out for this month was to the supermarket to buy food for Christmas lunch, and what was once something that I took for granted actually felt like a big trip out. It was weird to be around so many people. I can’t even remember the last time I drove my car.
Where previously I
would never have thought about what time I was going to the supermarket, we tried to go at time when there were going to be less people around. There is a combination of not
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