Journal
Bridie’s journal
Farm, four dogs, no time. Making time.
The list on the fridge
week 84steady energy 33 replies
Protein first, everything else after. It is not interesting advice and it is the only advice that has changed anything. Greek yoghurt, eggs, and the limits of both. I have…
Sunday night, four lines
week 82held energy 54 replies
Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines each, and it has quietly become the most reliable thing in my week. My buddy noticed something in my journal before I…
The limits of yoghurt
week 80steady energy 33 replies
This week: Greek yoghurt, eggs, and the limits of both. I have reached the limits of both. I have found five things I can get down when nothing appeals and I have written…
Just Wednesdays
week 79content energy 11 reply
This week: Nothing happened again. I am aware that is now the fourth month running I have written that, and I have decided it is the best sentence in this journal. Reduced to…
Quiet
week 76steady energy 13 replies
Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. I nearly did not write this week because there was nothing in it. Then I thought about…
Two years, no news
week 76settled energy 44 replies
This week: Nothing happened again. I am aware that is now the fourth month running I have written that, and I have decided it is the best sentence in this journal. Steady.…
Into town and back
week 74quietly delighted energy 51 reply
This week: Carried both bags up in one go. Small thing. Wrote it down. Slept flat. Whole night. Flat. Milking at six.
Protein first
week 72steady energy 53 replies
I have found five things I can get down when nothing appeals and I have written them on the fridge. That list is the most useful thing I own. Protein first, everything else…
She noticed first
week 70held energy 24 replies
This week: She had a bad week and I had a fine one, and next month it will be the other way round. That is the whole mechanism. Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or…
Steady
week 69flat energy 41 reply
This week: I nearly did not write this week because there was nothing in it. Then I thought about how much I have got out of other people's boring weeks. Nothing to report.…
Walking
week 67tired but good energy 32 replies
This week: Walked instead of the bus all week. Not a programme. Just walking. Kept the two sessions that matter and dropped the two that were vanity. Fewer, heavier, done.…
She stopped the room
week 65warm energy 44 replies
Went for the practical answers and stayed for the company, which I gather is what everybody does. The facilitator stopped the room when four of us were talking at once and…
She read the diary
week 63brisk energy 22 replies
This week: Asked the question I had been avoiding for eleven years. She answered it in about ninety seconds and was completely unbothered. Left with a printout I could not…
Stayed for the company
week 60warm energy 54 replies
This week: The facilitator stopped the room when four of us were talking at once and asked one person how she was actually doing. It changed the whole hour. Went for the…
Where the pen lives
week 58organised energy 22 replies
This week: Anchored injection day to my shift pattern rather than to the calendar, which solved a problem I had been feeling guilty about for four months. Small logistics…
Quiet
week 56flat energy 23 replies
Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that a journal made only of eventful weeks would give a false impression of the whole thing. Quiet. Injection…
Steady
week 54fine energy 43 replies
This week: Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. I nearly did not write this week because there was nothing in it. Then I…
Quiet
week 52fine energy 51 reply
I nearly did not write this week because there was nothing in it. Then I thought about how much I have got out of other people's boring weeks. Nothing to report. Writing it…
Three years side by side
week 50pleased energy 13 replies
This week: A1c down. I looked at the number for a long time and then rang my mother, which surprised us both. Everything stable. She said come back in a year. I have never…
Come back in a year
week 50relieved energy 5
This week: A1c down. I looked at the number for a long time and then rang my mother, which surprised us both. A1c down. Everything stable. She said come back in a year. I…