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46 entries from 19 Sep 2024 to 24 Apr 2026 · Hebden Bridge, UK

  • Quiet

    Sunday 20 Apr 2025week 31steady energy 13 replies

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. I nearly did not write this week…

  • I nearly did not write

    Sunday 13 Apr 2025week 30steady energy 31 reply

    A gentle week, mostly. I nearly did not write this week because there was nothing in it. Then I thought about how much I have got out of other people's boring weeks. An…

  • Slept through

    Thursday 3 Apr 2025week 29rested energy 14 replies

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. Waking at four again. Not anxious, just awake, lying there listening to the boiler. Slept through. Whole night, no waking. It has been…

  • Nine minutes

    Wednesday 26 Mar 2025week 27heard energy 12 replies

    Took the diary in. She read it properly, which I had not expected, and changed the plan because of it. Asked the question I had been avoiding for eleven years. She answered…

  • Eight minutes and a chair

    Monday 17 Mar 2025week 26tired but good energy 12 replies

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. Kept the two sessions that matter and dropped the two that were vanity. Fewer, heavier, done. Two sessions this week, both short, both…

  • Nothing to report

    Sunday 9 Mar 2025week 25flat energy 11 reply

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. I nearly did not write this week…

  • Awake at four

    Sunday 2 Mar 2025week 24rested energy 44 replies

    A gentle week, mostly. 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 that I…

  • Sunday lunch

    Wednesday 19 Feb 2025week 22warm energy 21 reply

    A gentle week, mostly. My mother cooks. That is how she says it. So I eat what I can, slowly, and I say thank you, and we manage. It is not a problem to be solved. Sunday…

  • Quiet

    Saturday 8 Feb 2025week 21flat energy 33 replies

    A gentle week, mostly. I nearly did not write this week because there was nothing in it. Then I thought about how much I have got out of other people's boring weeks. An…

  • Grip

    Tuesday 28 Jan 2025week 19tired but good energy 3

    A gentle week, mostly. Two sessions this week, both short, both done. Ren keeps saying that two a week for two years beats a perfect programme abandoned in March, and he is…

  • She read the diary

    Monday 20 Jan 2025week 18heard energy 12 replies

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. Asked the question I had been avoiding for eleven years. She answered it in about ninety seconds and was completely unbothered. Nine…

  • Across the day

    Sunday 12 Jan 2025week 17steady energy 13 replies

    Spread it across the day instead of trying to do it all at teatime and everything got easier. Protein first, everything else after. It is not interesting advice and it is the…

  • I nearly did not write

    Wednesday 1 Jan 2025week 15fine energy 23 replies

    An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. I nearly did not write this week because there was nothing in it. Then I…

  • A rough few days

    Wednesday 25 Dec 2024week 14sore energy 1

    A gentle week, mostly. The burping. Nobody mentions the burping. It is not in any leaflet and it is genuinely one of the odder experiences of my adult life. A hard December.…

  • Both bags, one go

    Tuesday 24 Dec 2024week 14quietly delighted energy 11 reply

    Slept flat. Whole night. Flat. Swam. First time since school. Two lengths, badly, grinning. Full shift on my feet and my knees did not stop me. That has not happened in about…

  • Circle tonight

    Monday 16 Dec 2024week 13warm energy 34 replies

    Went for the practical answers and stayed for the company, which I gather is what everybody does. The facilitator stopped the room when four of us were talking at once and…

  • Fewer, heavier

    Saturday 7 Dec 2024week 12tired but good energy 32 replies

    Kept the two sessions that matter and dropped the two that were vanity. Fewer, heavier, done. Two sessions this week, both short, both done. Ren keeps saying that two a week…

  • My mother cooks

    Friday 29 Nov 2024week 11warm energy 51 reply

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. My mother cooks. That is how she says it. So I eat what I can, slowly, and I say thank you, and we manage. It is not a problem to be…

  • Nothing to report

    Monday 18 Nov 2024week 9steady energy 51 reply

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. I nearly did not write this week because there was nothing in it. Then I thought about how much I have got out of other people's boring…

  • Where the pen lives

    Monday 11 Nov 2024week 8organised energy 12 replies

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. Tested three cool bags against a thermometer this weekend because I am that person. Results written up for the travel circle. Small…