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Gavin

Big lad, bad knees, very slowly getting back to the hills.

Dundee, UK · Dundee, forty-seven, joiner, both knees shot, used to hillwalk every weekend.

Their journal

46 entries, and Gavin is still writing.

  • Reduced

    Thursday 21 May 2026week 97content energy 14 replies

    Nothing happened again. I am aware that is now the fourth month running I have written that, and I have decided it is the best sentence in this journal. Steady, hillwalking…

  • Not a number

    Wednesday 5 Nov 2025week 69delighted energy 24 replies

    Wrote it in the milestones page as well, which I would have found embarrassing a year ago. Munro. First in nine years. The entry is mostly about the weather. Not a number. A…

  • Slept through

    Friday 18 Jul 2025week 53rested energy 33 replies

    Short one tonight. The sleep has changed shape rather than improved. Different, not better, and I cannot yet tell whether I mind. CPAP off after a repeat study. He wrote four…

  • Laces

    Thursday 17 Apr 2025week 40grateful energy 41 reply

    Late, and writing anyway. Up the stairs at work twice without stopping at the landing. I stood at the top for a second like an idiot. Nobody saw. It counted. Walked up…

  • Quiet

    Wednesday 2 Apr 2025week 38flat energy 43 replies

    A quiet week. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. Steady. That is the whole entry. Cheers.

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Recent check-in answers

16 Jun 2026 — What is one thing you want to try this month?

Started, stopped, started again. That is my whole beginning and it is fine.

7 May 2026 — Who did you help this week?

My mother-in-law, who has strong opinions and delivered them at dinner again.

12 Mar 2026 — What did you manage today when you did not want to?

I crashed and then I recovered in two days rather than five, which is progress of a sort.

26 Feb 2026 — How is the tiredness?

The polar night has it. Nothing to do with medicine.