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Posy

Garden, dog, no drama.

Chichester, UK · Chichester, sixty-two, retired GP receptionist, garden, dog, no drama.

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46 entries, and Posy is still writing.

  • Just Wednesdays

    Sunday 12 Apr 2026week 96settled energy 13 replies

    The strange part is not having a project any more. I had not understood how much I was enjoying having one. Steady. Two years. My only news is that there is no news, and I…

  • Paired

    Saturday 13 Sep 2025week 65held energy 44 replies

    Nobody has ever asked me how I was doing on a Wednesday before. She had a bad week and I had a fine one, and next month it will be the other way round. That is the whole…

  • Nine minutes

    Wednesday 3 Sep 2025week 64frustrated energy 41 reply

    Asked the question I had been avoiding for eleven years. She answered it in about ninety seconds and was completely unbothered. Left with a printout I could not read and no…

  • She read the diary

    Thursday 21 Aug 2025week 62brisk energy 54 replies

    Left with a printout I could not read and no idea what to be worried about. Taking it to bloodwork-buddies on Thursday. Took the diary in. She read it properly, which I had…

  • The question I had been avoiding

    Tuesday 19 Aug 2025week 62frustrated energy 43 replies

    Took the diary in. She read it properly, which I had not expected, and changed the plan because of it. Blood pressure medication reduced. She reduced one of my other…

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5 Jul 2026 — What is currently uncomfortable?

Nausea reliably Thursday teatime to Saturday afternoon. Once I could see the pattern it stopped feeling random.

26 May 2026 — What do you wish somebody had said to you in month one?

Week one. I have the pen in the fridge and I have not touched it in four days.

14 May 2026 — What is one thing about your body you are not going to comment on today?

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

29 Aug 2025 — How is your protein going?

Struggled. Cooking smells were the whole problem, not the food.