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Duncan

Practical to a fault. Ask me about cool bags.

Perth, UK · Perth, fifty-four, engineer, practical to a fault, invented three cool-bag solutions.

Their journal

46 entries, and Duncan is still writing.

  • Two years, no news

    Sunday 19 Apr 2026week 101settled energy 53 replies

    Week in order: The strange part is not having a project any more. I had not understood how much I was enjoying having one. Steady, still testing things. Wednesdays are just…

  • Where the pen lives

    Friday 5 Sep 2025week 69organised energy 32 replies

    Anchored injection day to my shift pattern rather than to the calendar, which solved a problem I had been feeling guilty about for four months. Wrote the storage and cold…

  • Eight hours of difference

    Friday 23 May 2025week 54organised energy 3

    Three things this week. Time difference of eight hours and a weekly dose. Moved it forward by two hours a day rather than all at once, on my GP's suggestion. Nineteen-hour…

  • Three years side by side

    Sunday 26 Jan 2025week 37pleased energy 31 reply

    Three things this week. Everything stable. She said come back in a year. I have never had a come-back-in-a-year before. Iron and B12 both low. Treated. The difference in a…

  • Unremarkable

    Sunday 19 Jan 2025week 36pleased energy 33 replies

    Three things this week. Everything stable. She said come back in a year. I have never had a come-back-in-a-year before. A1c down. He was pleased and hid it. Iron and B12 both…

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8 Jul 2026 — What are you working out at the moment?

The long horizon. Nobody can tell me what a decade of this looks like and I have decided to live with that.

1 Jun 2026 — What are you not sure about?

Whether it is worth seeing a dietitian and how I get referred.

5 Apr 2026 — What is your evening like now?

Same as last month, and the month before, and I have come to like that.

25 Mar 2026 — What is the weather doing to your week?

Forty-one degrees and my cool bag did not cope, which is a southern-hemisphere problem nobody writes about.