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  • My mother cooks

    Bruno14 Apr 2025loved energy 5

    My mother cooks. That is how she says it. So I eat what I can, slowly, and I say thank you, and we manage. It is not a problem to be solved. Starters as a main…

  • A printout I cannot read

    Gwenda14 Apr 2025frustrated energy 5

    Nine minutes. I took three written questions and got three answers, which is the best return I have ever had from an appointment. Took the diary in. She read it…

  • A new bin and a plan

    Gwyneth14 Apr 2025organised energy 4

    This week: Small logistics win: worked out where the pen actually lives in a fridge shared with four other people and a toddler's yoghurts. Two lines a day in a paper…

  • Off the floor

    Jonty14 Apr 2025pleased energy 5

    A brief account of the week. Tied my own laces standing up. I am aware of how that sounds and I do not care. Carried both bags up in one go. Small thing. Wrote it…

  • A wedding

    Lark14 Apr 2025loved energy 4

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. A wedding. Three courses I could not face, a table of people who noticed, and a very kind waiter who boxed it up without saying…

  • The list on the fridge

    Linnet14 Apr 2025steady energy 5

    Greek yoghurt, eggs, and the limits of both. I have reached the limits of both. Was undereating without realising. The nurse asked a plain question about what I had…

  • Nine minutes

    Maeve14 Apr 2025brisk energy 3

    Right. Took the diary in. She read it properly, which I had not expected, and changed the plan because of it. A locum who had clearly read nothing. I was polite, I…

  • Walking

    Marnie14 Apr 2025tired but good energy 5

    A quiet week. Came back after a bad fortnight without trying to make up the lost ground, which is the thing that used to end it for me every time. Kept the two…

  • An unremarkable week

    Petua14 Apr 2025fine energy 1

    Short one tonight. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately.…

  • Stayed for the company

    Posy14 Apr 2025warm energy 2

    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…

  • Sunday night, four lines

    Sonia14 Apr 2025held energy 4

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. 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. My buddy…

  • Steady

    Tam14 Apr 2025steady energy 3

    An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. I nearly did not write this week because there was nothing in it.…

  • Stayed for the company

    Tansy14 Apr 2025warm energy 1

    Well then. 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. Somebody…

  • Later than I should have

    Tobias14 Apr 2025better energy 2turning point

    Flat rather than sad. I could not find words for it for a fortnight, which meant I did not raise it for a fortnight. A very brief entry admitting he had been…

  • No news

    Tulla14 Apr 2025flat energy 1

    An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. No news. The dog is well, the weather has been foul, and I have taken…

  • She stopped the room

    Zeb14 Apr 2025warm energy 4

    Somebody new tonight, terrified, exactly where I was in the spring. I said the thing that had been said to me and watched it land. Went for the practical answers and…

  • Quiet

    Ammi13 Apr 2025steady energy 3

    Short one tonight. 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…

  • Somebody new

    Cato13 Apr 2025warm energy 1

    Went for the practical answers and stayed for the company, which I gather is what everybody does. Somebody new tonight, terrified, exactly where I was in the spring.…

  • Off the floor

    Clemmie13 Apr 2025quietly delighted energy 4

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. Tied my own laces standing up. I am aware of how that sounds and I do not care. Swam. First time since school. Two lengths,…

  • Weather, not a verdict

    Dev13 Apr 2025frayed energy 5

    Recording this for the record. Second plateau, and it is easier than the first, mostly because I have been here and come out the other side without doing anything…

  • An hour on the floor

    Fen13 Apr 2025pleased energy 1turning point

    Got down on the floor and back up again unaided. I have not been able to do that since 2021 and I did it twice more just to check. Cycled to Cambridge and back on the…

  • Back without making it up

    Juno13 Apr 2025tired but good energy 3

    Two sessions this week, both short, both done. Ren keeps saying that two a week for two years beats a perfect programme abandoned in March, and he is annoyingly…

  • How are you doing on a Wednesday

    Lu13 Apr 2025held energy 1

    Nobody has ever asked me how I was doing on a Wednesday before. Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines each, and it has quietly become the most…

  • Quiet

    Mo13 Apr 2025flat energy 3

    Week in order: 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. No news.…