"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

Sorry, mini crisis. Ds2 trapped some of his skin in a bicycle helmet clip.

Um, where were we? Oh yes. Yes, lots of positive one-to-one seems to help but it is quite intensive. Have been doing better over the hols but goodness knows what will happen when school starts again and we have homework angst to deal with as well.

LOL we need some people to be slightly different so that we don't all meld together in a scary heap of vegetable matter

ok you can tell me or email me all about your work then 100

ALL ABOUT IT no little hinting references

What was that? Oh god, it was collapsing shutters coming down.

TT - how will he feel about the HEing of DD? Will he want out too? Mine would.

[harrumph]

"oh ask anything yes franny go ahead"

alright then tell us what your favourite bird is

Well, when we discussed the possibility a while back he was okay with it. Don't know how he will feel now. I couldn't HE him though, and I think he probably knows this. He is also v. bright but not nearly so keen and needs the discipline really.

Yes it is frustrating! And I am used to him taking a while to wind down (especially in the summer when it's light); but we had such a nice day today, lots of activity, fresh air, running around etc.. he was tired.. so why can't he just go to sleep?! Then I start getting twitchy that he's coming down with something when he's unsettled like this... I can deal with it for so long but every now and again it gets to me.

Fair enough. And it's only a year isn't it?

You should come round. Our children can be scarily bright and a bit dysfucntional together. Any of them play chess?

We could do a History Day. DS's would love that. DD less so. She's cool. She's only 5 but she's the coolest person I've ever met and she'd turn her pretty nose up at our excited talking about Classical Architecture and ds1's fact delivery.

Franny, I hate birds. All birds. You know that.
I don't really mean to be coy. I am being wary, which is different. In a couple of months, I can tell you.

Do you hate robin redbreasts?

Yes, with their little plump warm breasts and those little bones and the beating hearts, and scary feet, and beady eyes and that turning their heads from side to side on the garden fence.

LOL are you fond of Ted Hughes 100?

Aargh! While I was trying to catch up with today you've added about 20 more posts. Wait for me!

TooT, your situation with dd sounds difficult but it sounds like you've made the right decision.

I'm worried that FMV is allergic to me - I am pink and spotty

BBB and 100x hope you had a great time!

I have never had flowery chocolate. Where can I get some so I can join a camp

Today - half a banana (.5) dried apricots (1) lettuce, cucumber, tomato, avocado (1.5) apple (1) beetroot, coleslaw, hummous, salsa, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, (2) pj's smootie - apple kiwi and lime (2)

8, not bad. I went to the cupboard for a penguin and came away with 4 dried apricots thanks to 10/10

Are we really wearing t-shirts for the meet up (which I might not be able to come to ) ?

Franny (I am munching dried apricots as I type), you are so reassurring. Here is DS at 10 months and all and sundry, yes the most surprisingly irrelevant people have an opinion on this, say "oooh, you shouldn't be feeding him to sleep". I panic. Then think, but I like it, and DS likes it, but will I now be feeding him to sleep for ever? So, how did your DS relinquish being fed to sleep? I want to know that I can enjoy this phase now because it won't last for ever and will peeter out naturally - that's what I need to hear, please. Rather than ruin the Now in a mess of anxiety about the Future
Tatties, sympathy, there are times when i just flounce out of the bedroom gnashing my teeth in frustration beccause a wee boy who was rubbing his eyes and drooping all over his supper suddenly becomes Duracell Batteries in Triplicate. Icecream. Definitely. Also I bought a recording of the ocean, and it works, it soothes DS as I feed him to sleep and then when he twitches and almost wakes again, it lulls him back to the Land of Nod.

Possum when he was nearly 3 we were both driving each other mad every bedtime, so I taught him to go to sleep by himself. It took a while but it worked - we used to settle him down as usual then "just pop downstairs to get sa drink". Leave him a minute or two then come back. Gradually lengthen times, etc. Eventually negotiated that he would go to sleep by himself but we would come up whenever he called. Then negotiated that he would try not to call more than 3 times per evening as we needed a rest too. Sometimes he stuck to it and sometimes we ran up and down all night

Has TT come back? I'm off lusting after OAPs. Isn't a pretty sight.

Yes Mr Hughes as the bird thing pretty well sewn up Franny, except I think he kind of liked them. Pervert.
Also, I notice you haven't said, oh no 100x, it's absolutely okay to be on 10/10 and go on about Rules and Consequences in your dcs upbringing. I've noticed that. I have.

I kind of did. I did try, but it stuck in my throat

there were no fruit or vegetables in scotland and the only things to drink were coffee or whisky.

I have scurvy and I am drunk and jangly.

But really I didn't do great (not much fruit) but didn't do bad (because all food offered was crap) I HAD to have coffee because I had to drive 6 hours today. Was a bit easier when we were in Edinburgh as I was pretty high and jangly on adreneline (we have to be at this venue at this time with no map and children wearing crocs - now run! - that kind of thing).

Now - the thing about decaff coffee is it is in the ranks of white choclate or alcohol free wine (or (look away if sensitive) sex without the orgasm) like all the effort or claries of whatever wihtout the actual effect - no endorphin inducing action to be found. Decaff coffee - no thank sir.

Oh yes possum - you posted about seeing some women pissing aganist a tree and then throwing a bottle at you - this is weird and bizarre behaviour - not just 'oh how awfl for you' - where were you?

where are you lusting after oaps?

I really fancy oliver reed and he is even dead.

I noticed there were a few of us on the OAP thread!

oh and edinburgh was so-oh-so-so wonderful.

The sun shone and I had a wonderful time. The children got all cultured and had such fun.

I had that awful thing where you are a parent and you get a tiny but oh so real glimpse of what your life was like before they came along. I love my childrne to bits but when you see your old life so close you can touch it you remember things you had forgotten for ages. Ah!

Oh and I have an instant and desperate crush on any mn that makes me laugh even a tiny bit. Including those in children's shows. I am going to become a theatre director and have a casting couch.

I'm not good at links. It's called something like Who Do You Fancy Who Is Old.

Edinburgh sounds fun. Don't give up coffee. I haven't. Coffee is one of life's pleasures. We need these.

I do because I'm going to be thrown off 10/10 in a minute. TT has gone away and won't listen to my words of wisdom.

oh BBBE I wasn't looking for sympathy, I was genuinely puzzled, I mean, the girl looked in all other ways to be fairly normal, I could imagine that sort of stunt (if I have to) at midnight after a night club but at 2pm in Kensington Gardens, it just seemed...bizarre. The behaviour of a much older, raddled person usually seen pushing a trolley of shopping bags around.
You know, I saw a gent the other day with such a trolley and it should have been in Tate Modern, was a work of art, all the bags stuffed with other bags, all mysteriously arranged according to some pattern which he obviously found pleasing and comforting.
I am eating too much fruit. It is making me ramble

No, I've been thinking about the pissing by the tree thing. I don't get it. Did she look embarassed?

no, not at all, she went on to kik a young man who was lying in the grass reading a book, I thought she might know him but was not so, she just went and kicked a total stranger. There were a lot of Arab families enjoying picnics and they looked a lot more than non-plussed.