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Carl’s journal

Sixty-one, type 2, doing this for my grandkids and my feet.

46 entries from 11 Jul 2024 to 4 Jun 2026 · Middlesbrough, UK

  • The pattern of it

    Friday 13 Sep 2024week 10flat energy 21 reply

    Headache for three days running. It turned out I had barely drunk anything since Tuesday. Water, then a slow improvement, then feeling faintly stupid. A bad month he…

  • I nearly did not write

    Sunday 8 Sep 2024week 9flat energy 41 reply

    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. Steady. That is the…

  • Nine minutes

    Saturday 24 Aug 2024week 7brisk energy 22 replies

    This week: Took the diary in. She read it properly, which I had not expected, and changed the plan because of it. Left with a printout I could not read and no idea what to be…

  • The list on the fridge

    Friday 9 Aug 2024week 5steady 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. Greek yoghurt, eggs, and the…

  • First dose, done

    Wednesday 24 Jul 2024week 3wired energy 21 reply

    This week: I told one person. Not my mother, not work. One person, and only because she asked me a direct question at the right moment. Day one. I am writing this partly…

  • Beginning, badly

    Thursday 11 Jul 2024week 1wired energy 31 reply

    The leaflet is nine pages and about seven of them are worst cases. I have read it three times, which was three times too many, and I am now going to stop reading it. Started…