Baggy has had a very difficult day.

Truth be told, Baggy has had a very difficult day. Clever Bird reckons that it's why Freda Fretter has had Baggy stuffing her face with rubbish all week, she's been dreading today. Silly really, as it should have been exciting, but it wasn't. Three things were happening today: Fat Club, visiting Dad's house and Calum going to the doctor's. So Freda Fretter has got herself in a state all week and had Baggy comfort-eating.

So stage one, go to Fat Club. Baggy had given herself a target last week of two pounds for this week. Unfortunately, Clever Bird mucked that up nicely - losing two pounds was the target, NOT doing what Baggy did and putting them on. No surprise really, just disappointing. Calum offered to drive to Dad's, as Freda had got Baggy in such a state that last night she couldn't sleep, and then kept getting hiccoughs! All day today, she has been struggling to swallow properly. Rubbish. They got to Halesworth really early, so had a bit of a mooch and went to the brilliant Hideout Café that a couple of Calum's cousins have opened. Cappuccino consumed and a friend of Baggy's Dad and Stepmother bumped into, Freda Fretter then realised that they were running late to get to Baggy's Dad's house (or to be more accurate, Baggy's house, as it now is).  Calum and Baggy were to meet the tenant and wanted to check out how the house was, as Baggy hadn't seen it for over a year.

Soul-destroying is how it was!

Baggy realised why Freda Fretter was so stressed about going. They knew that it had damp problems, but had not realised how bad it was. But it was seeing it, that was so upsetting for Baggy. She has not been there since her Step-Mum died last December and it hasn't really been very well looked after, since her Dad died (nearly four years ago now). Baggy's Dad always kept it looking immaculate outside and her Mum kept it looking immaculate inside, so it was a shock. Outside needs painting and quite a few building repairs. Inside has black mould growing in places and lots of ruined bits where the roof has leaked. But the worst thing was the garden that was Baggy's Mum and Dad's pride and joy. Long story short, it is a near vertical bank up to a field and although the garden has been fenced off as part of the house for over thirty-five years, apparently it did not belong to the house!!!! While Baggy's Dad was alive the farmer bought it (not that Baggy's Dad knew, or was informed)! Then days after Baggy's Dad died the farmer sold some of it to a neighbour! So there's been a bit of a "dispute" over it ever since, but Baggy has had no legal right to go on it. It is now a bramble jungle! She is working on trying to buy it for the house, but in the meantime it will get even worse. The tenant seems a nice chap, but he is a bit of a hippy and the place looked like a student bedsit, with a very large dog who had beds everywhere. So Baggy got upset. Very upset.

But as Calum said to her, "It's just a house, one of many that they lived in". True. Most of the work that needs doing (although going to be expensive) is cosmetic. Baggy got upset that her Dad would be upset, but that's equally silly. He would probably just be happy that it is now hers and that at some point in the future they may choose to live there. In the meantime, the tenant and his Giant Schnauzer, love it and are happy to cope with the damp. So Hormonal Hannah needs to stop making Baggy stress over it.

Most importantly, Calum is okay. Baggy just needs to get him and her on an even healthier diet, so that he stays that way. Now she somehow needs to stop stressing over everything and remember that she is very fortunate to have her own health, happy furries and her Dad's lovely house, that just needs some TLC to get it back to how it should be........