Journal
Gilly’s journal
Nurse. Terrible at taking own advice.
Paired
week 6held energy 1
Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines each, and it has quietly become the most reliable thing in my week. She had a bad week and I had a fine one, and next…
Back without making it up
week 5tired but good energy 42 replies
Right. Eight minutes and a chair. That is the whole programme. Tuesday and Friday. I have done it for eleven weeks. Came back after a bad fortnight without trying to make up…
A wedding
week 4loved energy 31 reply
Well then. Sunday lunch at my grandmother's. Small plate, long afternoon, no drama, and she was happy. My mother cooks. That is how she says it. So I eat what I can, slowly,…
I have started
week 3hopeful energy 23 replies
I want to write this down before I forget how frightened I was, because I suspect in three months I will not believe it. Twenty minutes of standing there. Then eight seconds.…
Two sessions
week 2tired but good energy 52 replies
Came back after a bad fortnight without trying to make up the lost ground, which is the thing that used to end it for me every time. Eight minutes and a chair. That is the…
Standing in the kitchen
week 1hopeful energy 44 replies
Well then. I told one person. Not my mother, not work. One person, and only because she asked me a direct question at the right moment. A first entry about hypocrisy. The…