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Kate

Weeks where tea and toast is the whole plan. Still counts.

Belfast, NI · Belfast, sixty-one, retired from a bank, arthritis in both hands.

Their journal

46 entries, and Kate is still writing.

  • Nothing happened again

    Thursday 14 May 2026week 115settled energy 11 reply

    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. Hands better, walks…

  • Thank you

    Saturday 10 Jan 2026week 98full energy 31 reply

    Well then. I am not a person who writes things like this, so I am going to write it once and then go back to being unsentimental. Two years. Wrote the only long entry she has…

  • Cut it short

    Monday 15 Sep 2025week 81tender energy 13 replies

    GP checked ferritin and thyroid rather than telling me to take a supplement, which I appreciated more than I can say. Some shedding at month eighteen which frightened her…

  • I nearly did not write

    Sunday 11 May 2025week 63fine energy 33 replies

    Right. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. A long quiet spring with nothing to report, recorded anyway. An unremarkable…

  • The question I had been avoiding

    Saturday 8 Feb 2025week 50brisk energy 22 replies

    Right. She reduced one of my other medications. I asked her twice whether that was really allowed. Blood pressure medication reduced. She asked twice whether that was really…

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19 Jul 2026 — What have you noticed about how you talk to yourself?

Told somebody they had helped me. They had no idea.

14 Jul 2026 — What is the smallest movement that helped today?

Walked up a hill I had written off and sat at the top for an hour.

7 May 2026 — Who did you help this week?

My buddy had a bad week and I had a fine one. Next month it will be the other way round.

4 Feb 2026 — Where did you walk today, if anywhere?

Ten minutes on the stationary bike because it was raining and I was not going out in that.