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Nettie

Shipyard shifts and a good union rep.

Barrow, UK · Barrow, forty-three, shipyard, good union rep, difficult shifts.

Their journal

46 entries, and Nettie is still writing.

  • Just Wednesdays

    Thursday 21 May 2026week 89flat energy 44 replies

    This week: 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…

  • Walking

    Monday 20 Apr 2026week 84tired but good energy 42 replies

    This week: Kept the two sessions that matter and dropped the two that were vanity. Fewer, heavier, done. Eight minutes and a chair. That is the whole programme. Tuesday and…

  • She stopped the room

    Wednesday 8 Apr 2026week 82warm energy 1

    Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of actual information. The rest was the point. The facilitator stopped the room when four of us were talking at…

  • Sunday lunch

    Tuesday 24 Mar 2026week 80warm energy 11 reply

    This week: Somebody asked what my secret was and I froze completely. Still working out what I want to say to that. A wedding. Three courses I could not face, a table of…

  • Quiet

    Wednesday 11 Mar 2026week 78fine energy 21 reply

    Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that a journal made only of…

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3 Jul 2026 — What is the last thing you learned about your own body?

I noticed I was hungry, correctly, at a normal time. Week 95. It felt like a message from an old friend.

25 Jun 2026 — What is the thing you keep forgetting?

Batch cooked six labelled boxes and felt insufferable about it.

20 Apr 2026 — What kept you up last night?

Broken but I got back off each time, which is the part that has improved.

17 Mar 2026 — What do you want to stop apologising for?

I was not kind to myself this week and I am noticing that rather than adding it to the list of failures.