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Huw

Steelworks shifts. The 4am staff-room meal problem.

Wrexham, UK · Wrexham, forty-three, steelworks shifts, the 4am staff-room meal problem.

Their journal

46 entries, and Huw is still writing.

  • No project

    Sunday 10 May 2026week 77content energy 43 replies

    Wednesdays are just Wednesdays now. Steady. 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…

  • A locum

    Sunday 4 Jan 2026week 59brisk energy 12 replies

    Took the diary in. She read it properly, which I had not expected, and changed the plan because of it. A locum who had clearly read nothing. I was polite, I got what I…

  • Starters as a main

    Wednesday 24 Dec 2025week 58loved energy 41 reply

    This week: My mother cooks. That is how she says it. So I eat what I can, slowly, and I say thank you, and we manage. It is not a problem to be solved. A wedding. Three…

  • She noticed first

    Tuesday 16 Dec 2025week 57held energy 24 replies

    Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines each, and it has quietly become the most reliable thing in my week. Nobody has ever asked me how I was doing on a…

  • Come back in a year

    Friday 5 Dec 2025week 55relieved energy 34 replies

    Bloods back. Unremarkable, she said, which is a word I had never once heard applied to me. Three years of results side by side. A trend rather than a moment, which is…

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Milestones

Recent check-in answers

18 Jun 2026 — What is the useful thing you would tell your own household?

My son, who is fourteen and made me a cup of tea without being asked.

7 Jun 2026 — What did you get through today?

I had enough to do something for pleasure rather than duty and that felt like a luxury.

2 Apr 2026 — What is your smallest ongoing habit?

Bands in the front room while the kettle boiled. It counts.

22 Oct 2025 — What is your smallest ongoing habit?

Nothing. A no-movement day and I am not going to build a story around it.