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Ollie

The dog gets me out. That is the whole exercise programme.

Cardiff, UK · Cardiff, fifty-eight, civil servant, a border collie called Nel who is the entire exercise programme.

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46 entries, and Ollie is still writing.

  • Two years, no news

    Sunday 14 Jun 2026week 107content energy 43 replies

    Wednesdays are just Wednesdays now. Steady, walking eight miles on a Sunday. Nothing happened again. I am aware that is now the fourth month running I have written that, and…

  • Two years, read back

    Tuesday 10 Feb 2026week 90full energy 23 replies

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. Two years today. I have read this journal back from the start this evening and the person in March 2024 was so frightened, and nobody…

  • Weather, not a verdict

    Sunday 14 Sep 2025week 68low energy 31 reply

    Second plateau, and it is easier than the first, mostly because I have been here and come out the other side without doing anything clever. Flat, and he barely noticed…

  • I nearly did not write

    Sunday 25 May 2025week 52fine energy 31 reply

    I nearly did not write this week because there was nothing in it. Then I thought about how much I have got out of other people's boring weeks. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild…

  • Told her

    Friday 16 May 2025week 51close energy 43 replies

    My sister started too, three weeks after me. We compare notes badly and lovingly. My son asked why I was not eating my dinner. I gave him a bad answer, thought about it all…

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28 Jun 2026 — What did you almost not do and then did?

Nowhere good. A flat, grey, unproductive day and I am letting it be that.

21 Apr 2026 — What do you need this week?

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

15 Mar 2026 — What are you carrying for somebody else at the moment?

A colleague covered for me on a bad day and never mentioned it again.

12 Feb 2026 — Who could you send four lines to tonight?

Honestly it has been a lonely fortnight. Reading this box is most of my social life at the moment.