Feeling energetic.

Well Baggees! Sorry Baggy has been a bit AWOL, but she's been rather busy getting on with life. 

Her new routine involves a little bit of meditation each day. This seems to have sorted Baggy's head out so dramatically that she is sleeping really well, and actually waking up early, feeling refreshed; rather than stumbling out of bed some time after 9.00 feeling exhausted! She therefore has the energy to take Furry Mama and Pepper Pooch (who is now 99% back to his usual self), to the beach each day, where they walk from Southwold pier to the harbour and back. In recent days this has involved walking head-on into the forty to fifty -mile-an-hour winds on the way, and being blown along by them on the way back.

Baggy then drives Grotty Groom to the yard and carries on with her walking of Wesley, while an exhausted pooch happily sleeps in Billy Bob Jalopy campervan wrapped up in his doggy bathrobe. 

Wesley's walks are now up to forty-minutes a session. Wessles seems to enjoy it - even in the ridiculously strong winds that Suffolk has had again today; but of course they're nicely sheltered in the wonderful indoor school.

It's certainly helping with the Boy's stiffness, as Baggy is starting to struggle to walk fast enough to keep up with him.

Next step will be long-reining him. Mind you Baggy nearly ended up with a broken finger at the end of today's session! Grotty opened the sliding door to the school, and before she could open it wide enough to safely get both Baggy and Wesley through, Wesley decided that he'd waited long enough for his lunch and barged past Grotty. As Wesley can do with ease, he demonstrated the stand to gallop manoeuvre, and shot out past Grotty, who was quick enough to tighten her hold on the lunge-line with her right hand, to stop him in his tracks; however, the excess line in her left hand was caught by the wind, and wrapped round Baggy's index finger tightening as Wesley zoomed away! Fortunately, Baggy still has an intact finger, and Pauline has shown her a more sensible way to hold the loose excess line for future reference. Clever Bird is always happy to learn something new - especially if it means that Baggy can retain all of her fingers.

On the not quite so windy days, they've been venturing into the outdoor school for a change of scenery and a bit of winter sunshine.

All of this marching about, means that Baggy is now averaging over 11,000 steps a day, which according to Baggy's phone app. translates to 5 miles!

No wonder that so far she has now lost 17lbs!

Next stop, often via the Post Office to send off various items from Creative Clara's little Etsy shop Realuv, home so that The Domestic Goddess (who has officially dropped her middle names of 'Not A'), can cook.

Sorry about the fuzzy food photos - Clever Bird blames the steam!

As Clara mentioned in her last blog, the biggest change since Baggy has been following her on-line programme, is to Hormonal Hannah, whose depression and anxiety have now been zero for the last couple of weeks. And when she did have a tiny blip last weekend, in spite of the weather Baggy, was determined to get her out to do her steps! Furry Mama dragged number one furry out too!

At the end of the walk, the cheese scone in the National Trust cafe at Dunwich Heath, was well earned!

Baggy is a new woman...

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!