"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

both architecture & interiors, and gardens, and the cityscape, all off our surrounding environment matters, design matters, it is not poncey, it truly has an impact on us humans for better or worse.
That kitchen is....just gorgeous ... but the star of the piece is your DS.

It is never too late to study about things for which you have a passion. A lady (her name escapes me) started Russian in her late seventies and by her mid eighties she was awarded the Puskin Prize for translating from Russian into English (or what it other way around). The point is there even if the details are fuzzy (too much salad has addled my brain.) I feel that very strongly.
The structure of universities has changed immeasurably in just the past decade - barriers of age (ie over 30) and barriers of rigid attendance requirements have been dismantled. First class universities now offer correspondence courses, at which a short while ago they would have looked down their noses.
If you envisage yourself taking your last breath and it still bugged you/saddened you/ frustrated you that you'd never studied bridges in great depth, then take some steps to that end now! Is the OU one way forward? Their courses and tutors are superb. Bridges are fascinating, they are inextricably bound up with so much - trade, expressions of political power & dominance, control of borders, movement of armies, adapatation of natural geography....
oh, are we allowed yet to know what else you purchased???
Had me figs, off I toddle

I have a fascination for bridges too oddly enough both metaphorical and actual...have done some projects in the past in an arty farty context arising from this interest

Oh I SEE Avi, you are sending me cyber confessions as to your wicked wicked spending Well I absolve you totally my child. Go forth and vegify.

Badge for Boco and all other 10 / 10 achievers. You are not doing badly....well SOME OF YOU. Names are being noted. I am considering having a wall of shame at the end of the week for those who have not had one day with the full 10 / 10. Be warned

SOPHABLE would you KINDLY have another look at this thread and rephrase your post? I don't think you will find WWW on here, you must have mistaken us for that other thread [irate]

DEWMEADOW here you go, sorry for the delay ;)

Oh I SEE Avi, you are sending me cyber confessions as to your wicked wicked spending Well I absolve you totally my child. Go forth and vegify.

Badge for Boco and all other 10 / 10 achievers. You are not doing badly....well SOME OF YOU. Names are being noted. I am considering having a wall of shame at the end of the week for those who have not had one day with the full 10 / 10. Be warned

SOPHABLE would you KINDLY have another look at this thread and rephrase your post? I don't think you will find WWW on here, you must have mistaken us for that other thread [irate]

DEWMEADOW here you go, sorry for the delay

ooh sorry, I thought that hadn't posted, and I was correcting my duff smiley

am off to work, behave yourselves

have eaten apple, raisins, blueberries x loads

woke up in a big low today missing dp dreadfully and still going through our lives together in my head..driving myself bonkers

however I have also been out and got the house ready for the brickies..I hope they will be here shortly

I offered to carry the bricks for them as the bricks are all in the wrong place and have to betaken from the back of the house through the house to the front...not sure whether I am being taken up on this offer or not

remarkably thanks to all this gym going and swimming I actually have muscles where bingo wings should be..

bridges...complicated but bridge scene in vertigo, maidenhead bridge (which was painted by turner..another person interested in engineering)..maidenhead bridge is a significant place in my personal canon.endeavour, memory identity all the usual blah

the sun is shining..I was fed up with the light the last few days it felt like a nuclear winter here..so I am relieved that it is now a blue sky as that was driving me nuts too

sorry you are feeling bad dior

it sucks doesn't it

I am going to college full time next month planned before we split up

Possum, I emailed you yesterday - just letting you know as I sometimes get stuck in spam folders. Right, gotta go!

Oh, and I second Franny, NOBODY is allowed to leave (S'okay Franny, I have locked ALL the doors )

zippi, maybe the hard labour will help and the fact that you are constructing something out of bricks and mortar?

Muscles instead of bat-wings also sound good.

Saggy what is this about the lure of academia? It is still August.

Besides if you read the small print you will see that anyone who tries to escape the 10/10 club will be pursued by the Sirens.

This scenario would not go down well in freshers' week now, would it?.

Oh, another bridge lover here, more for aesthetic reasons with a vague sense of their being significant on many intellectual levels but not being able to articulate it ifswim. Your lamp sounds lovely, Possum, I took a Mapping Modernism module as part of my MA. I was terrified by the reading list and aware that most people were doing a modernism MA, whereas I knew nothing about it, but I would say I got more out of that than anything else that year.

POSSUM IS NOT TO LEAVE THE BUILDING, GUARD ALL EXITS

Cinnamon and raisin porridge again with two kiwiw and lemon water. The wind is howling round my house and the sashes are rattling worryingly. Feel sorry for dc's that this is their holiday. My mother is camping for two weeks and she has had ONE sunny day.

aaagh no brickies yet.. i fondly hope they are organising something related

turner painting is the rail bridge but looks very like the road bridge is in the background

here

golden gate

Are we talking bridges today? I love this thread. Umm, i don't know much about bridges, but i once wrote an essay for cultural studies about liminal spaces and wrote about bridges then. And beaches. I like beaches.

I'm having that childfree day today - have a deadline of this friday to do 2 paintings, so my mum has agreed to take the girls for a few hours. I feel very lucky. Although she's not arrived. So, if you see me, please tell me to go away.

No not yet - the children are still here - happily drawing, and i'm listening to womans hour, i'm allowed to just sit here a bit longer until my mum arrives.

Did you really, Boco? So did I! Well, cultural studies essay about liminal spaces and beaches not bridges. It was about the film, The Piano, lots of choric skirts too.

I want to talk more of bridges but I have to go to town and buy a present for next door's dd tea party later. I feel like putting on a scarf.

Avi - Your kitchen, and your ds, look wonderful. If you haven't got an e-mail from me ith that forwarded plane stuff, please thump me.