MarnieAyr, UK
My GP, who read the diary I brought in rather than glancing at it.
5
Saturday 23 August 2025
What are you tired of explaining?
A short answer is fine. This one is mostly a chance to put it down. — asked by Wren
PriyaReading, UK
My daughter, who asked how I was and then actually waited for the answer.
9
Ottilie Sending you a quiet nod from a very rainy part of the country.
Birdie BWhitstable, UK
The facilitator who stopped a room of six people talking at once and asked me how I actually was.
6
BarnabyWinchester, UK
My brother started too and we compare notes badly and lovingly.
8
OrrinGlasgow, UK
Somebody at the pool showed me how to use the hoist for my mother. Ten minutes of her time.
7
BertrandToulouse, FR
My husband, who has done the injection every week for a year and never once made it a thing.
8
Tamzin No advice, just: I am sorry. That sounds hard.
PrueChester, UK
My dad rang, which he does not do, and asked one good question.
5
IvesPenzance, UK
The facilitator who stopped a room of six people talking at once and asked me how I actually was.
7
CatoAntwerp, BE
A friend I had not seen in a year who did not comment on anything at all.
3
PatrickLimerick, IE
The out-of-hours doctor who was completely calm at eleven at night.
5
NkechiAbuja, NG
The woman at the chemist counter, who spent ten minutes with me for nothing.
6
Moss That is exactly what my nurse said, and she was right.
BevanSwansea, UK
My brother started too and we compare notes badly and lovingly.
8
Tor Thank you for the boring week. Genuinely.
TiernanOmagh, NI
My mother-in-law, who has strong opinions and delivered them at dinner again.
4
NualaArmagh, NI
My daughter, who asked how I was and then actually waited for the answer.
5