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Ozzy

Southern hemisphere. Our summers ruin the cool bag advice.

Adelaide, AU · Adelaide, forty-eight, teacher, southern-hemisphere summers ruin the cool-bag advice.

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35 entries, and Ozzy is still writing.

  • Just Wednesdays

    Thursday 7 May 2026week 97settled energy 44 replies

    Well then. 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 for me. Steady. Wednesdays are…

  • An hour on the floor

    Wednesday 11 Mar 2026week 89pleased energy 21 reply

    Right. Tied my own laces standing up. I am aware of how that sounds and I do not care. Swam. First time since school. Two lengths, badly, grinning. Walked into town and back,…

  • A printout I cannot read

    Tuesday 17 Feb 2026week 86heard energy 22 replies

    Well then. Nine minutes. I took three written questions and got three answers, which is the best return I have ever had from an appointment. Took the diary in. She read it…

  • No mask

    Sunday 25 Jan 2026week 82foggy energy 44 replies

    Repeat study came back and the apnoea is much reduced. Ten years of that mask. Vivid dreams, every night, the sort you have to sit up and shake off. Two other people in…

  • Two lines a day

    Saturday 3 Jan 2026week 79organised energy 24 replies

    Right. 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. New sharps bin, and a…

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19 Jul 2026 — What have you noticed about how you talk to yourself?

I was not kind to myself this week and I am noticing that rather than adding it to the list of failures.

8 Jun 2026 — What is one thing you have accepted?

A conversation with my sister I have been putting off since Christmas.

21 Apr 2026 — What do you need this week?

I stopped apologising in an email and it took me four attempts.

10 Mar 2026 — What are you frightened of at the moment?

Genuinely awful pain last night. Went in. Investigated. Not what anyone feared. Would go again.

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