Scary stuff.

Sorry for missing a blog bloggees, but to say that Baggy over did it yesterday, doesn't begin to cover it! Baggy, Calum and Minty Mutt headed over to their other house yesterday, with a view to getting on with their plan! What plan you ask? Well, the one that's been hatching for a while now and that Creative Clara has eluded to a few times. She hasn't actually announced it before a) because Baggy keeps changing her mind and b) because it's a bit of a scary plan. But the plan (for now at least), is to move to the other house! Yes, see - scary! But it makes a lot of sense in lots of ways. For a start, it's a bigger house, with more room for Baggy and Calum's ridiculous amounts of stuff. But it's scary, mainly because it's a new start. But it's still in lovely Suffolk, where both Calum and Baggy grew up, so they both know the area well. But it's that bit too far (an hour-and-quarter away), to be able to leave the horses where they are, so it's a big deal. It's also a big deal because it was Baggy's Dad's and Step-Mum's house (although Baggy never lived there), so it has some dubious memories for Baggy. But, Hormonal Hannah's counselling has helped Baggy to get so much in perspective (for the first time since she was a child), that Clever Bird is pretty sure that she'll be fine. So it's all rather scary, but exciting!

The second part of the plan is to turn their current house into a holiday cottage. Told you Creative Clara had a business plan! It might not happen, as it's quite a big investment, plus there's all kinds of legal stuff to sort out, but it's a germ of an idea at the moment. And it will give Clara a project and another business to run (aside from her tweeny-weeny Etsy shop). But there's so much to sort out. The other house needs a new roof. There is still no start date for this work, but they can't even think about moving in until it's done. So in the meantime, the plan is to gradually start to move things over there and to get the garden in some sort of order and maybe paint the outside of the house!

Yesterday, they were up and retrieving crates from the shed, to take to the other house by 8.00am; crates that Baggy packed three years ago when she tried to de-clutter this house to sell it! Having loaded Cal's Dodge pick-up truck, they set off. At the other end, they unloaded it all, then started to tackle the "little" border by the garage! Over four hours later, Gloria Gardener and Calum had literally filled the Dodge with chopped down bushes, one of which was about fifteen feet high and growing under the garage roof tiles. Calum jumped on the chopped off greenery to flatten it, but it was still a large mound! In the jungle they discovered a water butt that was completely hidden, and exposed an old brick wall. By the time they'd finished, the drive was five feet wider!

A quick dash into lovely Halesworth to buy dehumidifiers to try to help with the damp (from the leaking roof), plus a couple of reed-diffusers to try to help the damp pong, then up to the graveyard on the way back. Flowers for Baggy's Step-Mum and Dad were arranged (badly) by Creative Clara. But for the first time, not one tear was shed! In fact Baggy was chatting to her Dad and Mum and remembering nice things for the first time since her Step-Mum died! It's amazing how far the counselling has brought Baggy and the anti-depressants are definitely helping too. Although Calum has taken to calling Baggy his "little space monkey", she is not quite as spaced out on them as she was. Mind you, tomorrow, she is supposed to double the dose!

Back to the house to set up the dehumidifiers and diffusers, then to Calum's Mum's grave, for more flower arranging. By the time they got home (via the chippy - needs must and there was no way that The Domestic Goddess was cooking), it was 8.30pm. The fish and chips didn't hit the sides. Neither did Minty Mutt's sausage that Furry Mama insisted Calum bought him.

This morning, Cal was up and about and showered by 8.30am. Baggy was not! Cal came back to bed to persuade Baggy to get up, and promptly fell back to sleep, as did Baggy. They re-emerged at 11.00am! Yep, yesterday was really hard work! They decided to go and check whether the tip was open. It was! It took over thirty minutes to try to unload the green waste into the bin. It was so well compacted into Dodgy-truck, that it wouldn't come off. At one point, Calum was disguised as a huge bush, as he carried a stupid amount up the steps to the bin, until it got stuck on the hand-rail. Creative Clara was desperate to take a photo of him, but Clever Bird realised that Cal might have a bit of a sense of humour failure if she did, rather than getting Baggy to at least try to help him.

Calum and Grotty Groom then headed to the yard to see the Boys for the first time since last Sunday. After much grooming, in spite of the dressage competition going on, they decided to go for a hack. It was lovely. Grotty so prefers autumn. Wesley barely head-shook once, so he had a much nicer ride, as did Grotty. They even did a canter up the avenue! Yee-hah.........