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Wednesday 7 August 2024 · week 1

Day one

nervous energy 4a turning point

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Wednesday 7 Aug 2024

Sitting down to this properly tonight.

Nothing has happened yet, which nobody had warned me about. I think I expected to feel something immediately, and instead I made a cup of tea and put a wash on.

A first entry about a hill she could no longer climb.

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. Then it was over and I felt faintly ridiculous.

So. First one done. I had been carrying the box around the house for four days like it was something I had borrowed and needed to give back, and in the end I did it standing up in the kitchen with the radio on.

Day one. I am writing this partly because somebody else's day-one entry is the reason I felt able to do it at all, and it seems only fair to leave one behind.

Fells on Sunday.

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4 replies

From people who share a circle with Linnet.

Bram8 Aug 2024

I did the same thing with the box, for six weeks, in a two-bedroom flat. We are ridiculous and we are fine.

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Nell9 Aug 2024

No wisdom, just: I am sorry. That sounds genuinely hard.

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Lucas7 Aug 2024

The list on the fridge idea is going straight onto my fridge.

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Ottavia8 Aug 2024

I am so glad you went in. Genuinely.

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