Sunday October 5, 2025

Goodnight friends! Much more mobile and coherent I think, starting to hopefully feel myself stabilising at a pretty good baseline. Not a huge amount of excess stamina, but the things I set my energy aside for – a decent-length walk and a bunch of stretches to assess and refresh my flexibility – didn’t put me to too much trouble.

Brisk and feeling slightly cool with a mildly damp and buffeting breeze, around 12-14°c. Morning was glassy clear and wind stayed strong and fresh throughout the day. Grey clouds roiling across the sky, gradually thinned and dissolved, having a hard time settling until after sunset when fitful drizzle resumed. Rugs of orange needles beneath the yews studded by coral-red arils, crowded galleries of stacked golden-yellow mushrooms growing on the damp grassy hillocks of graves.

May we find ways to strengthen our bonds of companionship and community today!

Image ID: Photo of glossy green ivy leaves enwrapped in the stringy, threadbare white veils of old cobwebs.