Is it okay to have favourites?

Baggy has been having a bit of a think today, about whether it's okay to have favourites. Should you have a favourite child? Probably not; but do you have one anyway? Furry Mama thinks that she can honestly say that she doesn't have a favourite. She loves them all equally, but for rather different reasons. Well let's get real here, if she loved Calum in the same way that she loved Minty Mutt, that could get a little weird.

But she has decided that some of her gang members are much more likeable than others. Truthfully she feels a little guilty about this, but there you have it. No prizes bloggees for guessing who her least favourites are. They are the trouble makers; Hormonal Hannah and Freda Fretter. But Baggy does love them anyway - she has to, they are a very large part of her and neither of them are that bad really. Freda has been with Baggy all her life, so she's used to her worry-mongering. Hormonal Hannah is the newest member of the gang, thanks to Baggy being an old (well, middle-aged bird), and more to the point, thanks to Lawrence-the-durmoid-cyst making Baggy have a hysterectomy and an oophorectomy, but she is a proper nuisance. But Baggy is going to get some help in handling the old bag fairly soon. So yes, least favourite is Hannah, second least is Freda.

The favourites are fairly obvious too - Grotty Groom and Furry Mama keep Baggy happiest. Baggy is never happier than when she is with her furries or her horses. She is by far her happiest, when number one furry Calum is with her and her other furries, or the horses. Simples.

But today, much to Baggy's surprise, she realised that Gloria Gardener is becoming a bit of a favourite too. The garden has been cut and weeded once more today and is almost beginning to look like a garden, rather than a tiny hay field. It's a rain and sun and Gloria miracle. Creative Clara is obviously a favourite too, she's loving blogging and writing her novel. Clever Bird couldn't decide who comes next, certainly not her! Probably Archaeologist Annie, although she doesn't manage to do much these days, but even this morning, Annie finds it impossible not to "field-walk" when Furry Mama is out with Minty Mutt; she found a lovely Mesolithic hand axe.

Baggy loves Lady Eadwynn too, as although she only generally appears in the summer months, when she does appear, she always has Calum and sometimes has Minty Mutt with her, as well as lots of good equally nutty, re-enacting friends.

Next, another one who tends to only make an appearance in the summer, Hairy Biker Hen. Baggy has mixed feelings about her, but she's okay. Baggy is not sure that she'll be strong enough to let her loose with her Kawasaki this summer, but she's sure to give it a go, as she's a determined bird.

Now Clever Bird! Well bloggees you might be wondering why she is down there with Freda and Hannah, well that's simple really, yes she is highly intelligent, but crumbs can she be stupid?! Letting The Domstic Goddess lift aluminium foil off a boiling pan, being a classic Clever Bird manoeuvre - days and days of bandaged fingers!

Mind you she did then find a way of getting Lady Eadwynn to disguise it!

Of course The Domestic Goddess is low in Baggy's ratings, not because Baggy doesn't like her, she loves her; she just hates her duties, which is why she rarely bothers doing them. But, favourites or not so favourites, Baggy loves them all. Where would she be without them after all?.............