My back held for a whole shift, which is the only thing I ask of it.
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Thursday 14 May 2026
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My back held for a whole shift, which is the only thing I ask of it.
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Neutral. Genuinely neutral. It is a body, it is doing its job, I did not think about it much.
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It did a full day of standing and only complained at the end, which is fair.
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It is warm, it is here, it got me to work. Enough.
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It swam. In February. In the sea. I did not think it had that in it.
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It held a child for an hour without giving out.
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Tacita Please do put it down for the evening if you can.
It is recovering from a virus and doing so slowly, and I am trying to let it.
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It is recovering from a virus and doing so slowly, and I am trying to let it.
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It made it through a fortnight I did not think either of us would manage.
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Strangers are being different with me and I hate it, and that is my honest answer.
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Prunella Two flights of stairs is two flights of stairs. Take it.
I got dressed without a running commentary. First time in months.
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Hard question. I liked my body before as well, actually, and I am tired of the assumption that I did not.
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It carried the shopping up two flights. That is what I have got today.
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Comfortable in a chair for a long meeting, which I would not have managed a year ago.
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Ruthie Glad you went in.
Grateful that it walked me up a hill even though I had been unkind about it all week.
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Comfortable in a chair for a long meeting, which I would not have managed a year ago.
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