Journal
Tansy’s journal
Baker. Yes, really.
Reduced
week 94flat energy 53 replies
Well then. Wednesdays are just Wednesdays now. Steady. Nothing happened again. I am aware that is now the fourth month running I have written that, and I have decided it is…
Starters as a main
week 78loved energy 21 reply
Well then. 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 lunch at my…
An unremarkable week
week 75steady energy 13 replies
Right. Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that a journal made only of eventful weeks would give a false impression of the whole thing. Quiet. Injection…
Iron and B12
week 72pleased energy 21 reply
Right. Everything stable. She said come back in a year. I have never had a come-back-in-a-year before. Three years of results side by side. A trend rather than a moment,…
Unremarkable
week 72relieved energy 5
Right. Everything stable. She said come back in a year. I have never had a come-back-in-a-year before. Fine. Three years of results side by side. A trend rather than a…
A wedding
week 70warm energy 11 reply
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 lunch at my grandmother's.…
Back without making it up
week 66tired but good energy 42 replies
Right. 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 annoyingly right.…
Nothing to report
week 64fine energy 13 replies
Well then. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. I nearly did not write this week because there was nothing in it. Then I…
Somebody new
week 61warm energy 44 replies
Somebody new tonight, terrified, exactly where I was in the spring. I said the thing that had been said to me and watched it land. Went for the practical answers and stayed…
Protein first
week 58steady energy 43 replies
Protein first, everything else after. It is not interesting advice and it is the only advice that has changed anything. I have found five things I can get down when nothing…
Steady
week 55steady energy 31 reply
Well then. 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. Nothing to report.…
Eight minutes and a chair
week 52tired 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…
Two flights of stairs
week 50quietly delighted energy 43 replies
Slept flat. Whole night. Flat. Stood a full ten-hour bake without her back going. Swam. First time since school. Two lengths, badly, grinning. Full shift on my feet and my…
I nearly did not write
week 49fine energy 43 replies
Well then. Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that a journal made only of eventful weeks would give a false impression of the whole thing. Quiet.…
Awake at four
week 46foggy energy 34 replies
Well then. 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 lay there in…
Both bags, one go
week 43quietly delighted energy 11 reply
Right. 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 four years. Slept flat.…
What is your secret
week 40warm energy 41 reply
Right. 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 lunch at my…
No news
week 36steady energy 41 reply
Right. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. I nearly did not write this week because there was nothing in it. Then I thought…
Stayed for the company
week 33warm energy 14 replies
Well then. 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. Somebody new…
Three cool bags and a thermometer
week 30organised energy 42 replies
Well then. New sharps bin, and a plan for what happens to it when I move in September. Small logistics win: worked out where the pen actually lives in a fridge shared with…