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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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My DH wandered into a lecture I was giving because it was raining and he wanted shelter from the elements. He then asked me afterwards to go for a cup of tea. He had absolutely no interest in my subject but was too shy to ask me out directly. I was too much of a nerd to notice that he actually found my subject stultifyingly boring. He endured six months of intensive tea drinking while I blathered on about my tedious topic until I twigged. It was a very gentle, very old fashioned sort of courtship

Idris, I'm new here too but welcome from me.

Boco - go to the dentist (if you don't a horde of 10-10ers will appear outside your window waving placards that say "Boco - go to the dentist".

Many thanks for the offer 100x but it is the sheer non-cottonness that causes the problem and his legs go all red and sore and bumpy and flaky.

Bristol today. Mother, grandmother and farmers market. I'm exhausted already.

I've left some of the bits out of my meeting dp story

I paid him 50.00 as that was what I paid the guy who took me to london and back (8 hours 220 miles)

I had also asked the guy who took me to London (this was several months earlier) to take me to cornwall but he suggested london as he had never been there

I am saving these things up for more debut novel

yes go to the dentist it will only get worse..and they are wuite good these days..they have to justify the cost somehow

I am hoping to come to the meet p - am very bad at commitment - are you100?

I met DP in a most unusual way - have you seen the film green card? It was a bit like that.

Welocome Idris - you more than qualify for this thread - in fact you are putting us to shame!

How was the tent 100 - did you get a badge?

Bcoc - have you called the dentist yet - they are open today.

Oh okay, I did just go and check them TT because of their unbelievable softness - even ds2 could and did wear them - but no they are indeed a charming polyester/viscose mix.

Am meant to be meeting friends at Bowood House today, with picnics. DH says I can leave dd here while he works. Poor dd. But I need to get ds1 out the house, he's been in for days and is jumping off the walls and watching too many screens. Feel mean though.

zippi - so you called a taxi and suggested cormwall and he suggested b'ham - so it was all a whim of wonder - how brilliant!

Also I like the one who wanted to go to London because he'd never been there. I think taxi drivers dream of people like you Zippi.

yes we just drove round and round birmingham for about 6 hours talking..we did stop at some pub somewhere briefly

yes - next time I get a taxi and the driver says 'where too love?' I will say 'Oh I don't know - anywhere you fancy' it will be so chariming.

Dutch driver is now back in holland well has been fro a few years..he was actually also a drug dealer and pimp but very nice

100 where di you meet your dp?

oh no sorry that's all direct - only if you want to tell me of course!

hmmm - I know veg boxes.

and I haven't been to Cornwall since these two attempts either..I did try to get dp to go but he won't be now..though the university course i want to apply for is there

Zippi did you sit in the front or the back? Did you talk the whole time, or gaze out of the window for some of it? So, the Dutch one, did you just go for one cab ride with him and stay in touch? Did pimping and drug dealing not pay enough, why was he a cab driver too? Maybe i'm naive, i thought those things were quite well paid. Maybe if he was a nice ethical pimp he didn't make as much. I used to know a pimp - i'd known him for a while before i realised, i was cartoon style shocked.

Sorry BB wasn't avoiding your question, have been rummaging through the cupboards looking for something which might vaguely resemble a picnic.

FIrst me dh at university, but I didn't know him. He was two years ahead of me. On my first day I walked into a room and there were two of the most beautiful boys I'd ever seen. One of them was talking about a musical he'd written, the other one was smoking a cigarette. I went over to that one and asked for a light. I went out with him for five years.

DH remembers one conversation at university, which I don't, in a theatre foyer. He thought I was out of his league, he said he stammered.

Then about six years later my flat mate was a theatre critic and she begged me to come with her to see some play in a fringe theatre. I went, reluctantly. And there was dh. And I said to friend, 'Oh look, it's the other one.'

We moved in together very quickly, but there were various other people about which complicated things for a bit. Then dh asked me to marry him in a queue at a motorway service station. And the lady serving the scrambled eggs was very excited and said 'Oh go on, go on' and I was very pompous and said 'I'm not absolutely sure I ever want to get married' and she got very cross with me.

Eight months later, I said 'oh go on then.'

in the front and talked all the time

didn't keep in touch with dutch driver, but he became workmate of dps as worked for same firm so knew him then but didn't really see him a lot...

dp had only been a taxi driver for 2 weeks when i met him (not ever a pimp or drug dealer)

builder has turned up

Am sitting open mouthed at these stories, BBBee you were right, this is very interesting.

Zippi you sound so impulsive and romantic.

100x you are quite sensible. Although going for the nicotine over the musical writer was a bit rash.

I remember the exact moment i realised how much i fancied dp - shortly after i met him, he was sitting on the floor in a kitchen leaning against the wall with lots of other people talking about something - and he did this thing where he kind of slightly purses his lips when he's thinking, and it made me sigh. And now, dd2 does it all the time when she's thinking, and it's beautiful.

Yes, I am sensible aren't I? Though back then was just a callow youth, and the cigarette smoker had very high cheekbones and a black coat and looked romantic. DH was being very expansive and funny, and at the time I was a fool and went for the cheekbones.

God, this all sounds as though it were at my fingertips. The truth is, and always was, that I'm not really in dh's league, he just hasn't realised this yet.

When I met dh again at the pub, I had this terrible rushing noise in my head and I couldn't concentrate on anything. It was like being struck by a very fast river. I loved him utterly. I went up and said, "I'm a 100x, you probably don't remember me' and he said, 'Yes of course you are. Of course. I'm not going out with anyone.'

Haha. Then he stammered.

I need another holiday after skim reading that thread. Hello all.

I had a fabulous time and I miss my friends already. I met her at the same time as dh, seen as you're talking about that. Eleven years ago, they were at university together and I was due to go away to uni. I saw dh in a club, his arm was in a sling after being beaten up in a nasty club for his wares the night before, and I went up and was very unlady like and forward and we were back at his in bed forty five minutes later and I didn't go to uni and we had a debauched summer and he dropped out and we got in lots of trouble and then I got pregnant with ds1 and didn't get a degree for years. He said much later that he had been in agony. We have lived together ever since but only married in April.

I have not eaten very much fruit and veg really but have a lot of quite delicious tapas and prosseco. This morning I have eaten a service station melon medley and it was not very nice.

Guadelupe has grown on me.

Have eaten chocalate. Someone mentioned it might be a superfood

Oh did he blush - he sounds lovely. And quite forward. Are you like that? Can't imagine you wasting much time, i think you'd come up with an agreeable plan of action and follow it quite efficiently.

When dp first met my parents he was quite nervous, they knocked on his door where i was staying, and he opened it and tripped over the mat. He has very poor co-ordination actually.

I wish I was efficient

MrsC you're back! Glad you had a good time. Guadalupe growing on you sounds like some kind of illness - like thrush, but lumpier.

Lots of us seem to have met dps at college. We split up in the middle for a bit too, which actually i'm glad about - as we were only 19 when we met, and it made everything more definite when we got back together.

MrsC where did you get married? We were thinking about getting married next summer - but probably too vague and lacking in energy to arrange it.

tapas sound lovely

impulsive i am..not sure about the romantic bit was just trying to escape..how or who with was fairly immaterial, they could have been anyone..actually they were anyone