Sunday 2nd November, 2025

I didn’t do any writing today
even though
I planned to do some writing
today

(a familiar lament)

Tuesday 4th November, 2025

Two days running
I’ve been insulted in the street

Friday 7th November, 2025

An eerie village
without streetlights
Or seemingly any lights at all
anywhere
except for the pub

Monday 10th November, 2025

Off to cornwall tomorrow
for a week
in the gloom

Wednesday 19th November, 2025

Came back to find
new neighbours
next door

Thursday 20th November, 2025

It was cold
everywhere I went

Friday 21st November, 2025

Fell down the stairs
just before bed
Think I might have broken
at least a couple of toes

Saturday 22nd November, 2025

Been hobbling around all day
creaking
like an old broken doll

Sunday 23rd November, 2025

There was a good half hour
in the middle of Castle In The Sky
that I didn’t remember at all

Monday 24th November, 2025

Using photoshop on my old computer
is an ever increasing chore

Tuesday 25th November, 2025

The sparrowhawk swooped down
a metre in front of me
then swooped off again
without acknowledging me at all

Sunday 30th November, 2025

Mum and dad put the tree up
today

Monday 1st December, 2025

Today
was kind of
miserable

Tuesday 2nd December, 2025

The new Candyman
wasn’t as good
as the old Candyman

Wednesday 3rd December, 2025

There were lots of squirrels
in Castle Park
Constant motion
in every possible direction

Thursday 4th December, 2025

Everything
everywhere
was grey
all day

Sunday 7th December, 2025

A spider sitting
expectantly
on the toilet roll

Wednesday 10th December, 2025

The christmas tree in the park
looked a little forlorn
and slightly alone

Thursday 11th December, 2025

A couple more weeks
and I can give up keeping
a diary

Friday 12th December, 2025

Went christmas shopping
and did not go mad

Saturday 13th December, 2025

Wrapped some presents up
without getting too frustrated
with my own ineptitude

Sunday 14th December, 2025

I keep seeing
a sparrowhawk
round here

I would gladly let it
eat me

Wednesday 17th December, 2025

I’ve finished christmas shopping now
(mostly)

Saturday 20th December, 2025

Hooray
It’s christmas
(unofficially)

Wednesday 31st December

end of year

fade out

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Notes:

1. Written in November and December 2025
2. I apologise for how unilluminating these have been
3. Don’t worry, I’m not writing one ever again

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Wednesday 1st October, 2025

I would quite like
a good night’s
sleep

Thursday 2nd October, 2025

I saw a deer
by the side of the road
Actually alive
just watching me drive past

Friday 3rd October, 2025

My eyesight
has about a six inch window
in which it can see

And each eye
is about 3 inches out of sync
with the other

Saturday 4th October, 2025

Reading is nice
and I should do it
more often

Sunday 5th October, 2025

Cascading
error messages
leading to unending
crash loops

Monday 6th October, 2025

Yet another day in which I never left the house (except to get the washing in)

Tuesday 7th October, 2025

I wish I was
a crow

Wednesday 8th October, 2025

Christ I’m bored
of all this
emptiness

Thursday 9th October, 2025

We had dinner
in the pub

Saturday 11th October, 2025

A diet of pancakes
and pastry

Monday 13th October, 2025

Ikea is still awful
even when you barely go
inside

Wednesday 15th October, 2025

Waited for a delivery
that never
arrived

Thursday 16th October, 2025

Sumo is
brilliant

Friday 17th October, 2025

My desk is finally finished
and I like it
(no excuse now
for ever doing nothing)

Saturday 18th October, 2025

The new exhibition
at the museum
is really very good

Sunday 19th October, 2025

I’ll miss the sumo
now it’s gone

Monday 20th October, 2025

Rain
forever

Tuesday 21st October, 2025

Sat at my desk
and wrote some words

Wednesday 22nd October, 2025

Dad bought 24 blues CDs
for £2.40
in total

I bought two cans of coke
for £1.84

Thursday 23rd October, 2025

There was supposed to be a storm
but there was barely a storm
at all

Saturday 25th October, 2025

The boy next door
has been squawking
like a crow

Sunday 26th October, 2025

It was cold
over the park

We saw a sparrowhawk
on the way there

But not
on the way back

Monday 27th October, 2025

A pumpkin
as big as a
beachball

Tuesday 28th October, 2025

Hey!
There’s an arcade here
which I never even knew
was there

Thursday 30th October, 2025

Everything was irritating
today

Friday 31st October, 2025

There was nothing scary
about halloween

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Notes:

1. Written in October 2025

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Monday 1st September, 2025

An empty aimless day

Tuesday 2nd September, 2025

Coughing
spluttering

Wednesday 3rd September, 2025

I should try
something
at some point

But instead I try
nothing
at all

Thursday 4th September, 2025

Coughing again

Friday 5th September, 2025

This diary
has been
a failure

Saturday 6th September, 2025

Blistered thumbs
from playing Silksong
too much

Sunday 7th September, 2025

There was a lunar eclipse
hidden
behind endless clouds

Tuesday 9th September, 2025

It was hot
and there were squirrels in the park
looking pretty pleased
with all the acorns
on the ground
and in their paws

Wednesday 10th September, 2025

My pen is running out

Thursday 11th September, 2025

There was one single burst of thunder
and that was it

Friday 12th September, 2025

Nearly finished Silksong (I think).

Everything left to do is
impossibly hard
and not much
fun

Saturday 13th Septmeber, 2025

Strange lumps
and cuts
on my fingers today

Sunday 14th September, 2025

So cold today
I shivered
for two hours
straight

Monday 15th September, 2025

It was windy. I stayed indoors

Tuesday 16th September, 2025

Silksong just goes on and on. I’m not sure if this a good thing
or not

Thursday 18th September, 2025

Another day where I have
nothing to say
about anything
at all

Saturday 20th September, 2025

Silksong loses all momentum in the final act
begins to feel
like a slightly joyless slog

Monday 22nd September, 2025

The elegance of an egret
impresses me
again

Tuesday 23rd September, 2025

I saw a crow
flying up high
and dropping walnuts
in the road

Thursday 25th September, 2025

Just the final boss in silksong left to do
after nearly a month
and a hundred hours
and more

Saturday 27th September, 2025

Still can’t beat that final bloody boss

Sunday 28th September, 2025

Two crows on the roof
feathers fluffed up so much
they look almost
round

Monday 29th September, 2025

A black and white cat
surrounded by magpies
seemingly curious as to whether
it’s one of their own

(Also finally finished Silksong today)

Tuesday 30th September, 2025

Egrets and cormorants
on the river
in weather that felt like spring

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1. Written in September 2025

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Note: I somehow managed to get covid and/or flu three different times during the summer, which goes some way to explaining how sparse this diary got then. And it was hardly particularly dense beforehand, obviously)

Saturday 14th June, 2025

Today was the first day in almost two weeks where I didn’t feel like complete crap (although I do still have a cold).

Sunday 15th June, 2025

I wrote some things today. Not much, but a start

Monday 16th June, 2025

I saw a kestrel
and bought an illustrated book about bugs and wasps

It was quite a nice day, really

Tuesday 17th June, 2025

I cannot draw very well

Wednesday 18th June, 2025

Hot
endlessly

Thursday 19th June, 2025

I think the things I make are good
until I’ve made them

Friday 20th June, 2025

Anxiety
again
indistinct
and all encompassing

Saturday 21st June, 2025

The frustration of
having to keep an old computer forever
purely because it’s the only thing that still runs
photoshop

Sunday 22nd June, 2025

The cinema
was hotter
than the sun

Monday 23rd June, 2025

I finished a thing
I published a thing
to silence
to silence

Tuesday 24th June, 2025

Poetry
will get you
nowhere

Wednesday 25th June, 2025

Thinking of going to bed
and it’s barely even 9 o’clock

Thursday 26th June, 2025

Too many books
piled up on my desk

Friday 27th June, 2025

I had no thoughts
about anything at all

Saturday 28th June, 2025

I got so hot I felt quite weird

Sunday 29th June, 2025

A beach of stones
and no shadows
at all

Monday 30th June

Not a very productive day
Not a very productive
month

Tuesday 1st July, 2025

It was hot
again

But we did at least see a baby robin in the garden

Wednesday 2nd July, 2025

This diary might well be the most depressing document of a human life ever committed to the page

Saturday 5th July, 2025

Not feeling well
again

Sunday 6th July, 2025

Shivering/sweating
in alternating turns

Monday 7th July, 2025

My eyes ache trying to see the screen and the endlessly tiny text every program seems to use no matter what settings you choose

Tuesday 8th July, 2025

An outbreak of ladybirds

A benign plague
if ever there was one

Wednesday 9th July, 2025

I itch
everywhere
in this heat

Thursday 10th July, 2025

A ladybird landed in my beard
today

Friday 11th July, 2025

A baby robin
is an absurd little
thing

Saturday 12th July, 2025

So hot all night
and yet not so hot all day

The worst of all worlds (perhaps)

Sunday 13th July, 2025

The baby robin
is still around

Monday 14th July, 2025

Writing is hard
(sometimes)

Tuesday 15th July, 2025

For the first time in at least six months
the cash machine at the co-op
actually worked

Wednesday 16th July, 2025

I won at bowls
in the garden
Which was nice

Friday 18th July, 2025

They started digging up the road outside my window
at ten minutes to midnight
And did not stop digging
all bloody night

Saturday 19th July, 2025

A spider appeared
and then disappeared
around the edges of this book

I hope it’s not now squashed
between some future pages
nor some long past

Sunday 20th July, 2025

Rain
on the first day of the summer holidays
as it should be

Monday 21st July, 2025

Distant thunder
is the most disappointing
thunder

Saturday 26th July, 2025

I have barely any feeling on the top of my right foot
in a line from the big toe
all the way to near my ankle

Permanent pins and needles
occasionally broken
by piercing jolts of pain

Tuesday 29th July, 2025

Skies of endless grey
(it’s quite nice)

Wednesday 30th July, 2025

Weird dreams
and nothing else
to remember

Thursday 31st July, 2025

I tried doing
something
anything
today.

But I failed

Friday 1st August, 2025

Hopefully now finally I am free (of monster hunter)

Saturday 2nd August, 2025

It seems too early for football again

Sunday 3rd August, 2025

I feel worthless
surprisingly often

Monday 4th August, 2025

Still somewhat scared of my new laptop

Tuesday 5th August, 2025

I just do nothing
generally

Wednesday 6th August, 2025

Had a haircut

Thursday 7th August, 2025

The Goonies has a lot more swearing in it than ITV ever let on.

Saturday 8th August, 2025

My phone is absolutely shit.

Wednesday 13th August, 2025

My nieces are absolutely obsessed
with K-Pop Demon Hunters
in a slightly terrifying
all encompassing
way

Thursday 14th August, 2025

I made a kite
and it actually flew
(which was nice)

Friday 15th August, 2025

Hot again. I did nothing

Saturday 16th August, 2025

Pickled some chillies.

Sunday 17th August, 2025

Could hear an astonishingly awful Oasis tribute band playing over the park.

Monday 18th August, 2025

Off on holiday tomorrow

Friday 29th August, 2025

While I was on holiday I got ill again.

Saturday 30th August, 2025

While I was on holiday I read:

Strangers On A Train by Patricia Highsmith
Shipwreck by John Fowles
The Stone Door by Leonora Carrington
O Cruel Alexis by Virgil
The Great Wingbury Duel by Charles Dickens
Lighthouses in 2023 (no attributed author)
The Course Of The Heart by M. John Harrison
Wivenhoe by Samuel Fisher
Under The Eye of The Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami

Sunday 31st August, 2025

The sun shone for a bit. I still don’t feel that well.

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Notes:

1. Written in June, July and August 2025

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