SunnivaBodø, NO
Week one. Frightened, hopeful, tired. In that order, all day.
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Sunday 10 August 2025
If you started something recently, how is week one going?
New arrivals especially. The rest of us remember it vividly. — asked by Esi
MarnieAyr, UK
I would tell somebody starting to write two lines a day from the beginning. Just two.
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BroganCumbernauld, UK
Week one and it is the not knowing whether this is normal that is hardest.
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ÖzlemIzmir, TR
Week one going better than I feared. Mild everything. Waiting for the catch.
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KateBelfast, NI
I would tell them to find one person to tell. Just one.
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Ilse Please do ring in the morning. Not to alarm you — just, ring.
TobinCork, IE
I would tell them to write down three questions before the first appointment.
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Bo Ten years of that mask. Enormous.
RowanInverness, UK
It is going all right. That is a strange sentence to be able to write.
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OzzyAdelaide, AU
Week three and I have found this place, which is the actual news.
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TorKeswick, UK
I would tell them to find one person to tell. Just one.
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Minnie That is the third time this month somebody has described exactly that.
TorrinAberdeen, UK
I would say: the obvious question is the right question, and nobody here sighs.
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PerrineStrasbourg, FR
Beginning a taper rather than a start, which is its own kind of beginning.
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BrynAberystwyth, UK
Started at sixty-two and I feel late to everything, and everybody here has been lovely about that.
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CloverTotnes, UK
I would tell somebody starting to write two lines a day from the beginning. Just two.
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Mark This is exactly why I read this page.
ClemmieNorwich, UK
I would change how much I read at 2am.
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BassCoventry, UK
Nothing yet. Nobody warned me that nothing happens at first.
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RayBarnsley, UK
Week one going better than I feared. Mild everything. Waiting for the catch.
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