Alison Curtis: Swimming lessons used to be a chore, now I'm just grateful to be out of the house

I'm not taking anything for granted after Covid, says Alison Curtis 
Alison Curtis: Swimming lessons used to be a chore, now I'm just grateful to be out of the house

Alison Curtis: 'Even mapping out formerly mundane things like the weekly shop and meal planning, post-isolation, has taken on a new life as opportunities to try out new things rather than just a chore.'

Most of us over the past two years have uttered numerous times, “We will never take anything for granted anymore”. When the option of just walking out your door to meet friends in the pub was gone. When we could no longer just pop into each other's houses, send the kids into schools, get on planes or do most things that up until 2020 that had never been questioned, were gone.

Now that the country has opened up and most restrictions have been lifted I am sure all of us think at some point during the day, wow, how did I ever take "this" for granted.

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