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Col’s journal

Living in a van. Cold chain is a genuine puzzle.

46 entries from 27 Aug 2024 to 5 May 2026 · Newquay, UK

  • Stayed for the company

    Tuesday 29 Oct 2024week 10warm energy 4

    Quickly, before bed. The facilitator stopped the room when four of us were talking at once and asked one person how she was actually doing. It changed the whole hour. Circle…

  • Fewer, heavier

    Wednesday 16 Oct 2024week 8tired but good energy 52 replies

    Kept the two sessions that matter and dropped the two that were vanity. Fewer, heavier, done. Walked instead of the bus all week. Not a programme. Just walking. Eight minutes…

  • Two flights of stairs

    Friday 4 Oct 2024week 6grateful energy 21 reply

    Got down on the floor and back up again unaided. I have not been able to do that since 2021 and I did it twice more just to check. Full shift on my feet and my knees did not…

  • Nine minutes

    Saturday 21 Sep 2024week 4brisk energy 22 replies

    Quickly, before bed. Asked the question I had been avoiding for eleven years. She answered it in about ninety seconds and was completely unbothered. She reduced one of my…

  • No mask

    Monday 9 Sep 2024week 2foggy energy 54 replies

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. Waking at four again. Not anxious, just awake, lying there listening to the boiler. Slept through. Whole night, no waking. It has been so long…

  • Beginning, badly

    Tuesday 27 Aug 2024week 1nervous energy 21 reply

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. The pharmacist talked me through it very fast and I nodded at all of it and retained about a third. I have written down the bits I remember and…