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Birdie

Seaside, seagulls, steady weeks.

Margate, UK · Margate, thirty-seven, care worker, seaside and steady weeks.

Their journal

46 entries, and Birdie is still writing.

  • Nothing happened again

    Saturday 4 Apr 2026week 91settled energy 42 replies

    Reduced to a maintenance dose. Same day, same fridge, less of it. Steady. Wednesdays are just Wednesdays now. The strange part is not having a project any more. I had not…

  • The list on the fridge

    Thursday 23 Oct 2025week 67steady energy 13 replies

    Evening. 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. Was undereating without…

  • Eight minutes and a chair

    Saturday 11 Oct 2025week 66tired but good energy 32 replies

    Walked instead of the bus all week. Not a programme. Just walking. Came back after a bad fortnight without trying to make up the lost ground, which is the thing that used to…

  • She noticed first

    Sunday 28 Sep 2025week 64held energy 14 replies

    Evening. Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines each, and it has quietly become the most reliable thing in my week. She had a bad week and I had a fine one,…

  • She stopped the room

    Friday 19 Sep 2025week 63warm energy 14 replies

    Went for the practical answers and stayed for the company, which I gather is what everybody does. Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of actual…

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28 May 2026 — How are your clothes and your comfort?

Comfortable in a chair for a long meeting, which I would not have managed a year ago.

16 May 2026 — What is the first thing you do on waking?

Not enough and entirely my own fault for reading about lipids until one in the morning.

27 Apr 2026 — What is your relationship with the fridge door?

Protein first, everything else after. Still the only advice that has changed anything for me.

3 Feb 2026 — What is the state of your fridge?

Wrote three questions down for Thursday. I have never once remembered them otherwise.