Right-ho Baggees, hope you're all doing well? Apologies that Baggy's absence was rather longer than she'd intended, but she's back. Well she's always been here of course - she did not temporarily vanish into thin air, although actually Clever Bird sometimes thinks that that would be an ability worth having! Nope, she and the gang have been getting on with life, just not in virtual-Baggy land. Truthfully, it has been a rather stressful month; not so much for Baggy, but for number one furry. In trying to stay strong for him, Baggy pushed Hormonal Hannah into a constantly anxious state. Freda Fretter did not want Calum worrying about her, in addition to everything else, so she bottled her anxiety up. Naturally, this made Hannah more anxious, then cranky, then upset and over sensitive, making the situation worse! Instead of being a reassuring, calm, positive support to her husband, Baggy became more of a liability. Let's just say that communication lines were disrupted, resulting in a few extra, tears, tensions and cross words.
Truthfully, Baggy is lucky; and Calum, despite running on empty at present, is still forgiving of Hormonal Hannah's histrionics. Grotty Groom however isn't! Once again it has been she who has been booted out of the gang, and her poor horses have not seen her. Until today that is, for the first time in a couple of weeks. And in spite of lovely Pauline, the yard manager, grooming small Shetland ponies out of both Boys just a few days ago, Grotty groomed a further horse-worth of hair out of Wesley today and a small cat out of Joey.
Furry Mama has had her hands full with Pepper Pooch who seems to have something wrong with one of his front legs. A week's worth of steroid cream does not seem to have resolved the issue of him biting through his skin at his ankle joint. Tomorrow Furry Mama will be at the vets' at 9.00am. Freda Fretter is praying that the pooch will not need x-rays.
Baggy herself has started seeing a physiotherapist about her neck and pelvis, both of which are apparently arthritic. Trying to get Hannah not to make her forget to do her exercises is proving difficult, so Clever Bird is going to be setting her phone alarm to go off three times a day, to try to remind her.
Gloria Gardener has been working wonders, as amazingly has The Domestic Goddess; well okay Baggees, yes you know her too well, perhaps wonders are an exaggeration in The Goddess's case, but she's done her best to get the house in order for Calum, and for Baggy's sister Debby, who's been staying for the last few days. So Baggy has had a wonderful time eating too much, walking the dogs and catching up with her sis.
Creative Clara has been extremely busy! She might not have been blogging, but her shop has been ticking over nicely, and she has written a further fifteen thousand words of her novel.
So in spite of an excessive level of stressful things happening, Baggy is good, and determined to get Hannah back under control, in order that the gang can live life to the full.....
Note to readers: For the avoidance of any doubt, every character in this blog is Baggy! No Baggy was harmed in its writing, although some of them get pretty confused!
Depression: Manageable.
Anxiety: Ghastly.
Tears: Lots.
Smiles: Lots.
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