"I crack the whip, and you skip" - 10 / 10 Boot Camp

[FrannyandZooey]

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.

Basic guidance on what constitutes a portion of fruit and veg here and you can download more detailed information by following the link at the very bottom of the page

PSW - hello, glad you had a good break.

Wombling - how old is your Lo again?

I must make a correction. It is actually Orange and Geranium in case anyone is confused when trying to purchase one. I think I think it's rose because it tastes of roses from the geranuim.

Hi MrsC,

Ornage and geranium choc stll sounds divine, lovely and pefumey.

I have a dd who is 3 on Saturday and a ds 19 wks tomorrow, just been diagnosed with silent reflux after 10 wks of slow weight gain, so is catching up, and knackering me! Check out pics on profile if your interested.

How about your DC('s)?

ok left too late to gym but managed a mile swim...surprisingly it is a quite a lot easier when you haven't spent an hour or so in the gym first

so hopefully brickie should be here soon and have to try and get the build back on track it's only about twelve months behind..haha

no idea what's happening to either house

I am considering whether to borrow 20k (he made an offer but not sure how much he meant) from exh interest free but don't particularly want to though very tempted..he has also apparently said something about buying my house so i don't have to worry about money

he is in the uk in a couple of weeks time "to sort out his family" not sure if he is including me in that but seems to be coming partly because I have split with dp

technical complexities

once i have seen brickie I shall looka t fruit..don't want any stuck in teeth when he comes

Seaspirit-ciderelle is more appropriate than you could imagine Love it!!

(Ask Sugarfree about Super Cider Saturday (and erm Sunday...!)

I'll just pretend the past 100 posts don't exist and answer previous questions, shall I?
I was at Beautiful Days in Devon. I had a blast. Mud Sweat and Beers

Since returning I have been craving F and V. Have consumed 2 ltres of OJ, a pound of rasps and blackberries, and a huge salad. For lunch I am having veggie samosas and more salad.
Exercise for the past 14 days has included climbing up and down tintagel,
manhandling tents in gales,
sea swimming,
boogie-boarding,
dancing,
carrying hefty children up and down huge hills to campsite,
dancing,
hula-hooping,
Walking for miles in very gloopy mud carrying plates of festy food
dancing,
holding 10-yr-olds on my shoulder to see bands
dancing.
dismantling tent in a gale.

That now excuses me from any excercise for a week by my reckoning....

wombling, thank you, will try a big supermarket that carries kids' clothes for bibs. My local Sains is teeny, ditto the local Boots.
Aviatrix, oooh, can we come and play with the kitchen? I mean me, the adult, forget about DS I have no idea why such thing appeals when i have spent the morning on my hands and knees washing all the floors and doing the laundary for real. (DS's trousers became truly filthy from crawling around this morning, and at one point he even literally got stuck to the floor, where a rogue fig had been squashed into permanent residence, and at that point I thought it was Time To Scrub. On the plus side, his immune system must be in stirling shape.)
Avi, if it's any consolation, on the recommendation of another MNetter i got a Browser Box from Community Playthings. It is an open topped play box/ storage thingy, solid wood with rounded edges and at the ends portholes, so baby can cruise around the box (weighted and rock solid for this purpose) and when kneeling also peep into the box from the side and pull things out. It is really building DS's confidence as he learns to walk and it's lovely to see him confidently select his own toys, whatever he fancies. When it's no longer of use to him, we'll use it as a magazine rack in the sitting room. Why am I detailing all its plus points? Because it cost £150 already I feel it's been worth it after only 3 weeks on use. Sometimes it really does pay to buy quality. DS has been amusing himself for an hour pulling himself up and rummaging about in the box whilst I've been doing the floors. Now that sort of uninterrupted time to Get On With Things is worth, IMO, a LOT of money!
Oh, so far today, Sir,

figs (not the one off the floor ), nectarines, about to make a large salad for lunch. Will go for a long walk after that.

Oh zippi, how complicated and confusing. Hope it works out smoothly. Somehow.

Bullerbys are my favourite Astrid. Absolutely superb. I wish ds's life could be like that - I do try but it is hard. Can we buy a 10 / 10 commune somewhere, and let our dcs all run wild buying bologna sausage and selling cherries by the road all day?

For breakfast I had: pear, grapes, melon, raisins (4). The mango was cunting ROTTEN from the INSIDE. I will spare you my thoughts. Lunch: hummus, celery, beetroot, red pepper. Probably 2.5, plus half glass of orange juice with my algae stuff in, making total of 7 so far.

Wombling, LOL at you exercising while breastfeeding. Look you lazy lot, if wombling can do it....

PSW, nice shiny wellies [approving]. Better pull your socks up on the food though. The scorned wife / troll is best lost to obscurity, I think - the thread got deleted.

SK LOL at the 6 person coffee I would have been bouncing off the walls

MrsC LOL at the fringe! Sounds just like the sort of stunt ds would pull.

Avi are you going to finally tell us what else you bought? Because you are not fooling anyone, you know...

FMF you are NOT exempt from exercise, you need to work all those dubious substances from your body for a start . Glad you had a good time

Possum have you got a link to the box? I am a sucker for these things. I have the Galt catalogue somewhere with its pages all stuck together with drool. When dp comes in I jump guiltily and hastily stuff it down the back of the sofa

Franny,

did you see, I posted some pics of the dc's thought you might like a peep.

(MrsC - sorry if you're interested

Need fruit, am rummaging through fridge for grapes and strawbs that have seen better days!

Franny, I apologise for my inability to do links. Must try harder (Sir).

www.communityplaythings.com/c/BabiesToddlers/BrowserBox/index.htm

If you Google 'Community Playthings Browser Box' it also comes straight up with it.

I am the same with the Haba catalogue (guilty shoving of catalogue down back of sofa). I DO spend my own money on said toys but, well, I could be spending my own money on more essential things like the re-wiring for the house. But it wouldn't be half as much fun. I suspect I'm buying what i longed for in my own childhood, DS probably couldn't care less.

oh Wombling, your DCs are delicious!
And Respect, seriously, for the lunges while b/feeding! Er em, as Franny said, if you do it, there's no excuse for the rest of us.

filthy that sounds like fun

brickie is going to start tomorrow unfortunately haevn't got the water connected in the right place so I am having to arbirtrarily move the opening for the gate to a non symetrical random point not in line with the front door or anything else in particular so will look irritiatingly odd to me and I suspect most other people but can't bear to delay any longer so just doing it in an i don't honestly care wahtever fashion

don't know what to do about borrowing money..this was never exhs house..and we have been split for 8 years..apparently he has so much money "sloshing around" he doesn't know what to do with it ..not enthralled at the possible prospect of seeing him

on the plus side have eaten banana nectarine and apple

anticipating the walk later

(in my slightly bizarre life an emailee suggested he drive from kingston on thames to spend the night with me last night before going to Turkey to live at lunchtime today..)

the trouble with mn is that I am totally jealous of all these babies and tots..especially when you post pictures of them..ah well

Franny - I just sprayed cinnamon and cardamon tea all over my laptop at you with your cunting mango

Wombling - mine are 9, 5 and seven months and your dc's are lovely

FMV - I too climbed Tintagel with fat baby in a sling. Lovely view though. Shame about the lady screaming at her daughter that she wished she'd never brought her on holiday, the fucking ungrateful little cow, though I guess we mustn't judge. She was ten or so.

What a lot of swearing in this post. All quotes

where were all you haba freaks when i was trying to sell the * stuff

WOMBLING yum yum yum yummmmm. Your baby reminds me of ds at the same age, lying on a blanket under a tree with the same little curl to his mouth, a bit like John Major. What eyes your dd has!

Avi I think they are just being polite, unlike me Oh go on, we just want a bit of vicarious toy-buying action. Go on, you owe it to us.

Sorry about the cunting mango . I like that acronym YOMANK after internet spluttering has occurred (You Owe Me A New Keyboard)

Zippi if he has money 'sloshing around' and you don't actually loathe him, it's certainly worth thinking about

Possum I am going to go and look now.

Ooh yes \link{https://www.communityplaythings.com/c/BabiesToddlers/BrowserBox/index.htm
\fab}. I have leered at it before. Absolutely beautiful for that stage in their development. That stage which lasts about, ooh, 3 months

eek

I am sure Tech boobytraps these links sometimes

I made toyboxes out of cardboard boxes and sticky back plastic in the olden days for this stage in development

Whereabouts in Wilts PSW? Was it really sunny? Can't have been near us!

Wombling, your dcs are delightful. I have dd1 (10), ds1 (8), ds2 (5) and dd2 (2).

Dd2's middle name is Astrid btw

Have just eaten an apple. Took ds2 and dd2 swimming and then to the park this morning. Doesn't count as exercise though, more like juggling.

Ooh, a 10/10 commune sounds like FUN! Perhaps we could test the idea with camping together...

Welcome back Sauerkraut!

And where is 3andnomore?

not bad I suppose - but John Major Franny? !!!

Have eaten another apple. Am trying to work out what school uniform I have to buy. And how much of anything.

Commune plans - Show of hands and I have already got it sorted - just as soon as the lottery win happens

Who was it who had that camping nightmare, er, dream involving 10/10ers?