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Poppy

Two kids, one very small fridge, here for the practical bits.

Leeds, UK · Leeds, thirty-three, two children under six, a very small kitchen and a smaller fridge.

Their journal

46 entries, and Poppy is still writing.

  • Reduced

    Monday 9 Mar 2026week 92content energy 54 replies

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. Wednesdays are just Wednesdays now. Steady, PCOS symptoms much improved, writing in fragments as ever. Nothing happened again. I am aware that…

  • The second one is easier

    Saturday 18 Oct 2025week 72low energy 53 replies

    Quickly, before bed. The plateau has been going on longer than the part before the plateau. That is an odd thing to sit with. Five flat months during which she stopped…

  • Stayed for the company

    Monday 23 Jun 2025week 55warm energy 34 replies

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. 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…

  • Two flights of stairs

    Tuesday 18 Mar 2025week 42quietly delighted energy 23 replies

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. 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. Got off the…

  • Two lines a day

    Tuesday 4 Mar 2025week 40organised energy 32 replies

    Tested three cool bags against a thermometer this weekend because I am that person. Results written up for the travel circle. New sharps bin, and a plan for what happens to…

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Recent check-in answers

14 Jul 2026 — What is the smallest movement that helped today?

The stairs at the station instead of the escalator, deliberately, twice.

21 Jun 2026 — What is one number you have stopped looking at?

It swam. In February. In the sea. I did not think it had that in it.

19 Jun 2026 — What do you do when the day gets away from you?

Batch cooked six labelled boxes and felt insufferable about it.

25 May 2026 — What made today ordinary?

It looks like reading other people's week-four posts and remembering.

Buddy

ongoingParents

Two kitchens, two sets of small children

Poppy and Toby write to each other after their children are asleep, mostly about cooking for people who are not you.

Poppy and Toby · since September 2024