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Dev

I will read the paper before I believe the post.

Manchester, UK · Manchester, thirty-four, research nurse, reads the paper before believing the post.

Their journal

46 entries, and Dev is still writing.

  • No project

    Monday 18 May 2026week 105content energy 51 reply

    The strange part is not having a project any more. I had not understood how much I was enjoying having one. Steady, still citing. Wednesdays are just Wednesdays now. Reduced…

  • An hour on the floor

    Thursday 22 Jan 2026week 88grateful energy 14 replies

    Recording this for the record. Swam. First time since school. Two lengths, badly, grinning. Ran 10k, having previously been unable to run for a bus. Tied my own laces…

  • A printout I cannot read

    Monday 18 Aug 2025week 66brisk energy 11 reply

    Notes for the week. She reduced one of my other medications. I asked her twice whether that was really allowed. Talked his own GP through FLOW, politely. Took the diary in.…

  • No news

    Tuesday 10 Jun 2025week 56fine energy 23 replies

    No news. The dog is well, the weather has been foul, and I have taken my medication on the correct day for the eleventh week running. Steady. That is the whole entry. An…

  • A different shape

    Monday 2 Jun 2025week 55tired energy 34 replies

    Notes for the week. Vivid dreams, every night, the sort you have to sit up and shake off. Two other people in circle have the same and none of us can find anything written…

All of Dev’s journal

Milestones

Recent check-in answers

18 Jun 2026 — What is the useful thing you would tell your own household?

My son, who is fourteen and made me a cup of tea without being asked.

15 Jun 2026 — What have you noticed about your week that nobody else would?

That the dog and I got to the top of the field without either of us needing a sit down.

15 Apr 2026 — Where are you with movement this week?

Nothing but I moved the furniture, which was accidental cardio.

4 Mar 2026 — What are you being harder on yourself about than you would be on a friend?

What I would say to a friend: this is hard and you are doing it anyway. What I say to myself is considerably worse.

Buddy

endedEnded well

The pairing that did not take, and what we learned

Six weeks, then a mutual and completely undramatic stop. We include it because roughly a third of pairings end and pretending otherwise would be dishonest.

Dev and Clemmie · since March 2025