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Toby’s journal

Cooking for four when I want none of it.

46 entries from 13 Aug 2024 to 9 Jun 2026 · Swindon, UK

  • Three cool bags and a thermometer

    Sunday 2 Feb 2025week 26organised energy 22 replies

    New sharps bin, and a plan for what happens to it when I move in September. Batch cooked on a good day for the bad days. Six labelled boxes in the freezer and a great deal of…

  • Six labelled boxes

    Sunday 26 Jan 2025week 25pleased energy 43 replies

    Batch cooked on a good day for the bad days. Six labelled boxes in the freezer and a great deal of smugness. New sharps bin, and a plan for what happens to it when I move in…

  • Two lines a day

    Tuesday 21 Jan 2025week 25organised energy 22 replies

    Quickly, before bed. New sharps bin, and a plan for what happens to it when I move in September. Batch cooked on a good day for the bad days. Six labelled boxes in the…

  • Dreams

    Sunday 12 Jan 2025week 23tired energy 54 replies

    Quickly, before bed. Repeat study came back and the apnoea is much reduced. Ten years of that mask. The sleep has changed shape rather than improved. Different, not better,…

  • Three cool bags and a thermometer

    Sunday 5 Jan 2025week 22organised energy 34 replies

    Batch cooked on a good day for the bad days. Six labelled boxes in the freezer and a great deal of smugness. Built a five-meal rotation the whole family will eat. New sharps…

  • She reduced it

    Friday 3 Jan 2025week 22heard energy 22 replies

    Asked the question I had been avoiding for eleven years. She answered it in about ninety seconds and was completely unbothered. A locum who had clearly read nothing. I was…

  • I nearly did not write

    Wednesday 25 Dec 2024week 21flat energy 51 reply

    Quickly, before bed. 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. Steady.…

  • A printout I cannot read

    Thursday 19 Dec 2024week 20frustrated energy 1

    Quickly, before bed. A locum who had clearly read nothing. I was polite, I got what I needed, and I have booked with my own GP for next month. Nine minutes. I took three…

  • No news

    Thursday 12 Dec 2024week 19fine energy 33 replies

    Quickly, before bed. Steady. That is the whole entry. Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that a journal made only of eventful weeks would give a false…

  • Six labelled boxes

    Friday 6 Dec 2024week 18organised energy 1

    Quickly, before bed. New sharps bin, and a plan for what happens to it when I move in September. Batch cooked on a good day for the bad days. Six labelled boxes in the…

  • Two sessions

    Friday 29 Nov 2024week 17tired but good energy 32 replies

    Grip strength has gone off and I noticed it opening a jar before I noticed it anywhere else. Back to loading properly. Kept the two sessions that matter and dropped the two…

  • Quiet

    Friday 22 Nov 2024week 16fine energy 13 replies

    Quickly, before bed. 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. An…

  • An unremarkable week

    Wednesday 13 Nov 2024week 15flat energy 13 replies

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine…

  • Nothing to report

    Wednesday 6 Nov 2024week 14flat energy 41 reply

    Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. No news. The dog is well, the weather has been foul, and I have taken my medication on…

  • Two lines a day

    Thursday 31 Oct 2024week 13organised energy 12 replies

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. Batch cooked on a good day for the bad days. Six labelled boxes in the freezer and a great deal of smugness. New sharps bin, and a plan for what…

  • At the table

    Tuesday 22 Oct 2024week 12prickly energy 42 replies

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. Hid the box for two months. Not sure who from, exactly, in a house this size. My son asked why I was not eating my dinner. I gave him a bad…

  • A different shape

    Tuesday 15 Oct 2024week 11tired energy 14 replies

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. Repeat study came back and the apnoea is much reduced. Ten years of that mask. The sleep has changed shape rather than improved. Different, not…

  • Laces

    Wednesday 9 Oct 2024week 10pleased energy 41 reply

    Slept flat. Whole night. Flat. Sat on the floor and played for an hour, and then got up. That was the entire reason I started, and I have now done it. Bath time.

  • Told her

    Friday 4 Oct 2024week 9close energy 22 replies

    Hid the box for two months. Not sure who from, exactly, in a house this size. His son asked why he was not eating and he handled it badly, then better. My son asked why I was…

  • Before nine

    Monday 30 Sep 2024week 8steady energy 33 replies

    Protein first, everything else after. It is not interesting advice and it is the only advice that has changed anything. Spread it across the day instead of trying to do it…