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Sorrel

Second Welsh smallholder here. We compare fridges.

Machynlleth, UK · Machynlleth, forty-two, smallholder, off-grid-ish, the fridge is a genuine question.

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46 entries, and Sorrel is still writing.

  • Just Wednesdays

    Wednesday 6 May 2026week 76flat energy 34 replies

    This week: 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…

  • Two lengths, badly

    Tuesday 4 Nov 2025week 50pleased energy 44 replies

    This week: Walked into town and back, which I stopped doing years ago without ever deciding to stop. Carried feed bags without her back going. Slept flat. Whole night. Flat.…

  • Slept through

    Tuesday 29 Jul 2025week 36rested energy 34 replies

    This week: Vivid dreams, every night, the sort you have to sit up and shake off. Two other people in circle have the same and none of us can find anything written about it.…

  • Before nine

    Thursday 24 Jul 2025week 35steady energy 53 replies

    Spread it across the day instead of trying to do it all at teatime and everything got easier. Protein first, everything else after. It is not interesting advice and it is the…

  • An unremarkable week

    Saturday 19 Jul 2025week 35flat energy 13 replies

    No news. The dog is well, the weather has been foul, and I have taken my medication on the correct day for the eleventh week running. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild…

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18 Jan 2026 — If nothing much is happening, what does nothing much look like?

The same shopping, the same walk, the same Tuesday.

26 Nov 2025 — Who did you help this week?

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

18 Nov 2025 — What did you decide this week?

I have been quietly low and I am going to mention it on Thursday rather than wait.

25 Oct 2025 — What is your evening like now?

It looks like reading other people's week-four posts and remembering.