Float Like A Butternut, Sting Like A Pea - 10 / 10 club - all welcome

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For anyone who wants a boost to their general health. The suggested goals are:

EAT 10 PORTIONS OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES EVERY DAY - if you don't usually eat much fruit and veg I would build up gradually or you could upset your digestion.

DO (AT LEAST) 10 MINUTES OF EXERCISE EVERY DAY - can be yoga, stretching or something more energetic. The plan is that the idea of doing 10 minutes is not too daunting, and having started you may well find you want to do more.

There are no restrictions on what you eat so long as you get your 10 fruit and veg as well. The focus is not on weight loss but on improving our energy levels and hopefully our general mood and well-being. Sign up below and post here to tell us how you're getting on and how you are feeling.

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Thanks MrsC! No just classic - but Magnums are rubbish anyway - you're not missing out on anything

She is loaded down with stuff, and good stuff at that.

Aah, well done you. It's lovely to be an auntie.

Ooh. Home baked apple pie! Can't wait til autumn. My apple tree's looking pretty good!

Congratulations aunty aviatrix!

Avi - a million congratulations, very exciting.

F&Z - did you have a good time? I like the look of that place with the bbqs outside for lunch. My friend rang me tonight and said she was shattered that she'd spent the entire weekend in a dairy tent at a food show in Oxford. OH I shouted, DID YOU SEE FRANNY and her DS and HC?
To which she quite rightly said, "who? what?' and I had to quickly backtrack and say, 'a rather lovely looking boy, possibly carrying a lettuce?'

Mrs C - I'm up for playing LIWilder but not cowboys and indians please. I'd like to wear gingham though and spend hours and hours sorting things out for the smokehouse. Is that possible?

By the way, has eveyone seen the misunderstood song lyrics thread? It's just had me roaring with laughter!
Night all.

MY GOD I thought they would never sleep!!! Over 2 hours to settle ds2 and dd2 and even then dd2 wouldn't give me my nipple back for about a year. Then ds1 needed a chapter of his book about killer bananas....
Aaaaaaarrgghhhhhh! And the bread still to bake and lunches to decide upon if not make....

Salad. Apricots. Quinoa. Veg.

Oh yes, hello 100, there were no cowboys anyway, I just didn't think Laura and co could quite muster the breathtaking excitement of high speed horse activity. Plus feathers.

The smokehouse is no less interesting for its honest, wholesome and comforting regularity. What will we be smoking today, and all our shirts done up to the very top for God sees all
including loosened buttons?

Congrats Avi

What about Laura's sleigh rides with Almanzo? They were quite something.

Congrats indeed Avi My friend who I have known since we were 11 is due to have her 1st - well, she was due on the 10th and I am feeling potentially almost aunty-like...

Yes the sleigh rides were amazing. But so was the smoking, god they did that a lot. All those jars and hams and things lined up, and Mother laying them out on shelves.

Yes Mrs C we are all buttoned up, and we have a frankly astonishing amount of clothes on. Bloomers, hooped skirts, blouses, big pants probably - itchy ones I think they were. Glory. We can hardly pass father the hams to smoke with all this kit on. But our hair is braided, which is nice and no=nonsense.

Oh Avi congrats

100 The Fishes was fab and they served lunch in picnic baskets outside, it was marvellous. Was your friend with the young farmers making smoothies with a bike? Because if so I did see her. Otherwise was she a very old woman churning butter. I didn't speak to anyone else in the dairy tent.

PSW an apple tree?

lol, no i don't think so. I'm not sure what she was doing, she was helping a friend out she said. She said she released her inner primary school teacher for the occassion, and she thinks she scared some of the children with her enthusiasm. We both agreed that her IPST had been sacked from a number of schools, for freaking out the parents and touching the children too much.

Does this help? She had to sit on the floor she said, for the whole weekend. Whatever could she have been doing?

True, though I picture her as a small girl more than anything, the early ones have stayed with me more I think.

Well tell her if she was the smoothie woman, that she really should not have given ds that THIRD cup of full cream smoothie, no matter how sweetly he was smiling at her, and that his suede boots are unlikely to be the same ever again, thank you very much

Was she the one playing card games? Yes I think she was. She wouldn't let ds play, and she told him to come back in 4 years

yes, it is hard work preparing the hams but we must prepare for the winter, 100x, then we can cosy up in the cabin and Father can recount stories of his adventures and play the fiddle while the wind howls, knowing we have smoked food enough to see us through.

Franny- do you mean he was sick or that he spilt it?

Card games? Crikey, surely she'd have mentioned that?

Oh, spilt, thank heavens!