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Matt

Eighteen months steady. Happy to talk about the boring part.

Nottingham, UK · Nottingham, forty-seven, quantity surveyor, one of the founding six, on maintenance since 2025.

Their journal

41 entries, and Matt is still writing.

  • Nothing happened again

    Saturday 20 Jun 2026week 121settled energy 5

    Two years. My only news is that there is no news, and I have come back specifically to say so, because nobody wrote this part down for me. Steady. Writes monthly. Reduced to…

  • Plainly

    Monday 16 Feb 2026week 104full energy 53 replies

    I want to say plainly that this room has done something for me that I did not think a website could do. It is mostly people writing down ordinary weeks for each other. Two…

  • Eight minutes and a chair

    Sunday 25 Jan 2026week 100tired but good energy 42 replies

    This week: Walked instead of the bus all week. Not a programme. Just walking. Two sessions this week, both short, both done. Ren keeps saying that two a week for two years…

  • Paired

    Monday 5 Jan 2026week 98held energy 2

    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…

  • An hour on the floor

    Tuesday 16 Dec 2025week 95grateful energy 21 reply

    Swam. First time since school. Two lengths, badly, grinning. Sat on the floor and played for an hour, and then got up. That was the entire reason I started, and I have now…

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Recent check-in answers

30 Jun 2026 — What is your circle giving you at the moment?

My neighbour walked the dog while I was in hospital and would not take anything for it.

8 May 2026 — What is your appetite doing?

Nothing appealed. I had yoghurt standing at the counter and called it a win.

25 Apr 2026 — How is the household coping?

My brother started too and we compare notes badly and lovingly.

6 Mar 2026 — What is one small strength thing you did this 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.

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