Day 123 - From one extreme to the other.

Ghastly weather yesterday. Glorious weather today. The gang had the day off yesterday. The gang has been flat out today. Baggy overslept. But at least she slept.

Furry Mama took Minty Mutt for a lovely walk. Baggy chose the "wetlands" walk. When they got back she groomed an entire animal out of him.

The Domestic Goddess broke the washing machine (again). Well it is The Goddess. Although Clever Bird suspects that really Furry Mama is at fault. There will probably be the equivalent of a large gerbil's worth of fur in the filter (again).

Gloria Gardener has worked Baggy's (really not so) little socks off. A certain (new) Uncle (yes Richard!) guilt-tripped her into it! Apparently sitting in the summerhouse blogging, rather than weeding is wrong. Well, he has a point, but it was very cold that day, in Baggy's defence. Today is gorgeous.

So, today Gloria excelled herself. Three hours later (with a few side tracks for Furry Mama to play with the mutt, it looks rather better.

Creative Clara did make Gloria leave the wild violets behind as they are so pretty. But all the other weeds - gone! The Domestic Goddess rustled up some lunch, while Clever Bird made Hormonal Hannah listen to a chat show about the menopause. This was Calum's suggestion. Hmmmmm! So all these feelings of depression, anxiety, lack of confidence, sleeplessness, anger and the rest that Baggy has been feeling are entirely down to the menopause. Thanks for that Hormonal Hannah. So clearly the long-lasting after effect of Baggy's Lawrence surgery will be the joys of dealing with the menopause. Rightly or wrongly, Baggy does not want to take HRT. She certainly doesn't want to take anti-depressants. Clever Bird wants her to just fight it. So fighting it she is! It's quite a battle. But talking about it helps! It should not be a taboo subject. All women will go through it at some point. Just worrying about it as Freda Fretter has been doing is no use. Baggy has discovered that for her, giving in to it, as she did yesterday, is also no use. Keeping active seems to be working. Baggy feels heaps better today. Mind you it helps that the sun is also out. Blogging about it also helps, so Creative Clara will be keeping you bloggees up to speed with how she is coping. Or not.

After listening to the chat show, Gloria attacked the nettle patch. Clara forgot the before picture.

Five bags of weeds later, Baggy is shattered. Now Clara is blogging before she gets on with her book. Yep bloggees she has started writing a book. What about? Well that's a good question. No idea! Clever Bird thinks that Psychic Ploppo might be writing it. It has started a little weirdly. Even Clara does not yet know what it will be about. Or how it will turn out. Maybe it won't. But it's fun sitting staring at the little notebook and waiting for the next line to "appear"..........