Love everything.

Note to readers (my lovely Baggees): For the avoidance of any doubt - every character in this blog is me!!! No Baggy was harmed in its writing.

 

Baggy's daily state!

Depression (Black = really bad/Grey = not great/Blue = okay/Yellow = sunny day): Black.
Anxiety (From 1 = barely any to 10 = gibbering wreck standard): 3.
Tears: No.
Overall day:  😍

 

 

Everything deserves to be loved - animate, inanimate, big small, old, new. If it isn't loved whatever it is will deteriorate for the lack of care, or be left abandoned - in a cupboard, on the street, in a drawer. Either way, this is a bad thing! Take Baggy's house for example, Baggy's dad and step-mum loved it, so they spent a lot of time caring for it, as a result it was immaculate. Even in his eighties, her dad was up a high ladder painting the outside of the house. Her mum looked after the garden, which always looked spectacular. LOVE. Since they moved on to the garden in the sky, their house has been sadly unloved. As many baggees know, the last tenant in the house didn't love it at all, and the estate agents didn't seem to care either, and the lack of love showed. NO LOVE. Baggy and Calum love their house, but have only just been able to focus some attention on it, because all of their attention has been on loving the holiday cottage. Well Baggy is now totally loving her house - it deserves it! LOVE.

When she inherited it, a little over a year ago, it looked terrible - peeling paint, black mould all over ceilings, major damp problems, a totally overgrown garden, filthy curtains and blinds, stained carpets, warped doors, water-damaged cupboards, tumbling down sheds. NO LOVE. Since Baggy and the furries moved in seven months ago, slow progress has been made by the Domestic Goddess and Gloria Gardener on the outside. Now when people walk by, instead of saying, "Oh, I thought this house was empty", "Glad someone's looking after this house now", or "It's a shame the house got into such a mess", they're saying, "What a lovely cottage", or "What's that colour, it's lovely?" LOVE.

This morning:

This evening:

Little by little. LOVE.

The front of the house is almost finished.

Just Baggy and Cal's bedroom window to paint, and the weather board, which Creative Clara can't decide whether to paint blue or white.

Little steps. LOVE.

Rescue cats Hinge and Bracket, adoring the sun and their new hunting ground. LOVE.

Minty Mutt chilling after his surgery. LOVE.

Another item from Clara's Etsy shop Realuv on its way to North Carolina. LOVE.

Life. LOVE.............