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Gwen

Welsh, stubborn, doing fine.

Bangor, UK · Bangor, forty-nine, hospital porter, Welsh, stubborn, doing fine.

Their journal

42 entries, and Gwen is still writing.

  • Back without making it up

    Saturday 28 Mar 2026week 94tired but good energy 52 replies

    This week: 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…

  • Reduced

    Saturday 14 Mar 2026week 92settled energy 41 reply

    Wednesdays are just Wednesdays now. Steady. Two years. My only news is that there is no news, and I have come back specifically to say so, because nobody wrote this part down…

  • A plain question

    Thursday 12 Mar 2026week 92steady energy 43 replies

    Got something with protein in before nine this morning, which meant the rest of the day did not fall apart at four. Greek yoghurt, eggs, and the limits of both. I have…

  • Two sessions

    Monday 23 Feb 2026week 89tired but good energy 52 replies

    Grip strength has gone off and I noticed it opening a jar before I noticed it anywhere else. Back to loading properly. Came back after a bad fortnight without trying to make…

  • Anchored to the shifts

    Thursday 5 Feb 2026week 87organised energy 52 replies

    Small logistics win: worked out where the pen actually lives in a fridge shared with four other people and a toddler's yoghurts. Two lines a day in a paper diary. Date, and…

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Recent check-in answers

11 Jul 2026 — What are your hours like this week?

Fine. Genuinely fine. Boring even.

11 May 2026 — What did you read this week that helped?

What the evidence actually says about ten years of this, and I already know the answer is that there is not much.

19 Apr 2026 — What is your body neutral about?

Neutral. Genuinely neutral. It is a body, it is doing its job, I did not think about it much.

28 Feb 2026 — What did you cook or eat with someone else this week?

Rice pudding out of a tin at half past nine at night. No notes.

Buddy

ongoingSteady

The one who was doing fine and joined anyway

Neither of them has had a crisis. We include this because a site full of dramatic stories would misrepresent what most weeks are like.

Ted and Gwen · since July 2025