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Ted

Tuesday is injection day and I quite like the ritual.

Ipswich, UK · Ipswich, sixty-three, retired postman, likes the Tuesday ritual.

Their journal

46 entries, and Ted is still writing.

  • Nothing happened again

    Wednesday 22 Apr 2026week 89content energy 14 replies

    This week: 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, Tuesdays.…

  • What is your secret

    Monday 9 Feb 2026week 78warm energy 11 reply

    A wedding. Three courses I could not face, a table of people who noticed, and a very kind waiter who boxed it up without saying a word. Starters as a main course,…

  • How are you doing on a Wednesday

    Sunday 25 Jan 2026week 76held energy 44 replies

    Paired up. We text on Sunday nights, four or five lines each, and it has quietly become the most reliable thing in my week. She had a bad week and I had a fine one, and next…

  • She stopped the room

    Saturday 10 Jan 2026week 74warm energy 54 replies

    Went for the practical answers and stayed for the company, which I gather is what everybody does. The facilitator stopped the room when four of us were talking at once and…

  • The limits of yoghurt

    Saturday 27 Dec 2025week 72steady energy 13 replies

    This week: Was undereating without realising. The nurse asked a plain question about what I had actually eaten in the last two days and I heard my own answer. Greek yoghurt,…

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Recent check-in answers

8 Jan 2026 — Is anything in your body worth mentioning to someone this week?

Stomach cramps I did not like the shape of, so I rang. Told to be seen the same day. It was fine.

5 Nov 2025 — What are you counting down to?

It has taken me eighteen months to get to a version of this that feels ordinary.

28 Oct 2025 — How are your hands and feet?

My gut has settled completely and it took about five months.

12 Oct 2025 — What is going on with your gut?

My gut has settled completely and it took about five months.

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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