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Florrie

Grandma of five. Doing this for the floor-play.

Blackburn, UK · Blackburn, sixty-five, grandma of five, doing this for the floor-play.

Their journal

46 entries, and Florrie is still writing.

  • Reduced

    Tuesday 17 Mar 2026week 93flat energy 53 replies

    Evening. 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. Wednesdays are…

  • Three years side by side

    Saturday 23 Aug 2025week 64relieved energy 22 replies

    Three years of results side by side. A trend rather than a moment, which is apparently the only thing worth looking at. A1c down. Bloods back. Unremarkable, she said, which…

  • A new bin and a plan

    Tuesday 8 Jul 2025week 57organised energy 22 replies

    Small logistics win: worked out where the pen actually lives in a fridge shared with four other people and a toddler's yoghurts. Anchored injection day to my shift pattern…

  • Awake at four

    Friday 27 Jun 2025week 55tired energy 54 replies

    Evening. Slept through. Whole night, no waking. It has been so long that I lay there in the morning trying to work out what was different. The sleep has changed shape rather…

  • Nothing to report

    Thursday 19 Jun 2025week 54flat energy 31 reply

    Evening. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. I nearly did not write this week because there was nothing in it. Then I…

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Recent check-in answers

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

The facilitator who stopped a room of six people talking at once and asked me how I actually was.

5 Jun 2026 — What are you doing about the dark or the heat?

A proper storm. Stayed in, cooked, felt fine about it.

17 May 2026 — What are you putting off asking a clinician?

Whether the hair thing needs bloods or patience.

10 Apr 2026 — What is one thing you would change about how you started?

Week one and somebody stayed on a call with me while I did it.