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Winnie

Hairdresser. Extremely aware of hair shedding.

Carlisle, UK · Carlisle, forty-two, hairdresser, extremely aware of hair shedding.

Their journal

36 entries, and Winnie is still writing.

  • Laces

    Sunday 8 Mar 2026week 91quietly delighted energy 41 reply

    A gentle week, mostly. Swam. First time since school. Two lengths, badly, grinning. Sat on the floor and played for an hour, and then got up. That was the entire reason I…

  • An hour on the floor

    Saturday 14 Feb 2026week 88pleased energy 51 reply

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. Up the stairs at work twice without stopping at the landing. I stood at the top for a second like an idiot. Nobody saw. It counted. Got…

  • No project

    Friday 6 Feb 2026week 87content energy 22 replies

    A gentle week, mostly. 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.…

  • Nothing to report

    Saturday 24 Jan 2026week 85fine energy 41 reply

    A gentle week, mostly. Steady. That is the whole entry. I nearly did not write this week because there was nothing in it. Then I thought about how much I have got out of…

  • Slept through

    Monday 5 Jan 2026week 82tired energy 3

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. 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. Vivid…

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Recent check-in answers

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

Caught myself walking faster than the person in front of me. Small. Enormous.

12 Jun 2026 — What is your sleep window at the moment?

Vivid dreams again, the sort you have to sit up and shake off.

14 May 2026 — What is one thing about your body you are not going to comment on today?

It is recovering from a virus and doing so slowly, and I am trying to let it.

22 Apr 2026 — What was the last useful thing a clinician said to you?

Whether it is safe alongside what I take for my heart.

Buddy

pausedPaused

Paused, not ended

Pippa asked to pause for family reasons that have nothing to do with any of this, and Winnie held the pairing open for five months.

Pippa and Winnie · since April 2025