In Gourd We Trust - 10 / 10 club - all welcome

[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

She rang me. She sounded nervous. I was great.

She said 'No, no everybody does know about ds2, I think it's just a matter of putting names to faces.'

I said, if nobody goes and puts ds2's name to ds2's face TODAY then you can tell Mr X that I shall personally come in and do that this very afternoon, and I shall stand on his toes whilst doing so.
She laughed, in a tittery ohmygodithinkshemeansit way. She said, 'I think lots were late on the coach but Ds2 was very late and the coach was waiting. I think Mr X was worried about that.'

I said, 'The coach was waiting because a 7 y-o with useless motor skills was left alone in a changing-room. He is not responsible for the coach being late, Mr X is responsible for not making sure ds2 had adequate help. If shouting at ds2 would improve his motor skills I would have done this years ago. Next week, Mr X needs to be properly organised and to help with buttons and give appropriate support and he is not to shout at ds2 or pull his shirt off in a grumpy way, ever ever again.'

And she said, 'Yes, you're right.' (I like it when people say that.) 'I am going RIGHT NOW to sort this all out, I promise.' Then she laughed, in a really warm and nice way and said, 'I have heard you 100x. Believe me.'

And we both laughed. Was that alright do you think? I didn't do the 'stupid and clumsy' ds1 thing, I was being focussed and clear.

You did marvellously, 100x, and she sounds like she was listening. I would have listened to you. Thank goodness your ds has someone to speak for him. Think of all those poor boys of old with dyspraxia being man handled on to a coach.

You must come and rant here. No-one is really interested in what vegetables others have eaten, well, with the exception of Lullaby. It is the periphary that is interesting, or do I mean the vegeatbles are the periphary, and the rants/jokes and general banter are the core? I don't know what I mean.

I think I may lose the Mrs altogether and be Carota, it's latin for carrot. I like it. I think I have found my name. Halleluja.

''if shouting at ds2 would improve his motor skills I would have done this years ago. Next week, Mr X needs to be properly organised and to help with buttons and give appropriate support and he is not to shout at ds2 or pull his shirt off in a grumpy way, ever ever again.'' Fecking bloody fantastic!

I heart you 100x. (even if you look nothing like Owen wilson)
Are you available for my son's next IEP meeting at all...?

I heart Owen Wilson for finally making my ds's name cool and not chavvy...

(rocket salad, grapes, apple, melon and blackberries so far. I shall not be getting the ahem, exercise, I got yesterday as I am at work today

I would also like to borrow you, 100x, next time I have to go to the school with intent!
We are having a crap day here. Our cat had five kittens in May, we kept one, Rosie, and she got run over yesterday morning. The caretaker found her, cleared up but didn't tell us (he knew she was ours), so we all spent yesterday looking for her, then found out from the shopkeeper this morning- 4 upset kids and an uneasy conscience but that serves me right as I griped to the kindergarten teachers about the caretaker, which one should not do in a small village.
End of whinge.

Oh you are all so nice and supportive. Thank you.

This Anne thing is catching. She just rang me back, she was very warm and brisk. She said 'I wanted you to know that ds2 had PE with Mr X. I had a word with Mr X this morning, and ds2 was helped with changing. Mr X understands everything, and ds2 had a lovely time.'

I like this lady. She gets me.

That's excellent! lol at "this Anne thing"!

That's brilliant 100x, you are highly effective. You could hire out yours services. I bet she didn't say 'i heard you', i bet she said 'i heart you'. Or that's what she meant.

SK sorry about your kitten, that's really sad - a neighbour i've never spoken to and i always thought was a bit grumpy just came round and tearfully asked if i could check my sheds for her lost cat.

DD1 wet the bed last night and then sobbed all morning and said she's tried school, and decided that she doesn't need to try it any longer. She likes her teacher, she doesn't mind the class, she has friends - the problem is that there isn't enough painting or gathering acorns. I think she should be a Steiner child.

She said that at lunchtimes the same group of girls make her be the bad baby - every single day, and she doesn't want to, she wants to collect acorns, but no one wants to do that, they want to punish bad babies. Didn't have much time but tried to do motivational pep talking over the wails. Ugh. I've told her to say no, i'm not being the bad baby today, i'm gathering acorns - who's coming? but she says that will never work.

And also, 100x, would you recommend atonement? My mum will babysit tomorrow as its my birthday and i want to see a film. I don't want to be unfulfilled though - is there anything else that looks good?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOCO

Did you like the book? Did you read it? I didn't like the book much, and it is a faithful adaptation. Yes, is worth seeing and is ambitious, he throws everything at it, but doesn't quite pull it off. Design-wise, stupendous.

People like that one I haven't seen, erm, Hallam Foe is it? Might be good birthday-wise.

oh...I am so so so excited....and have no time right now to read messages, sorry...but well...my new "toy" arrived
link to wooden hand cart....my boys want to go out testdrive it now,but I know people here might appreciate the greatness of this contraption and I jsut had to share with someone
And I am ever so proud that I was able to put it together all by myself.

F&V wise...1 peach, 1 banana, about 2 portions dried fruit (prunes, apricots and dates...yum) and carrot sticks...

Oh it's not until tomorrow, but you can say it again then please

Liked the look of Hallam Foe but then i read a really crap revue that said it didn't work. I did like the book, but not enough to remember the story much. Saturday i hated, it was terrible.

Am annoyed for dd. Am on a roll now.

DD needs to know it is okay to say, I'm not going to be the bad baby. I bet if she went off and collected acorns, a couple would follow, relieved to be out of the bad baby scenario.

(that's a weird game isn't it?)

FWIW dd also grumpy and complaining about the fact that you have to work in year one, and its rubbish. Is an adjustment period, I feel.

I was just practising for tomorrow. . . .

What else is on? I'd see Atonement if there's nothing else probably.

Or, and ds1 has tried this and it works.

before break-time she says to one of the girls, a nice one that she likes, 'at playtime, let's go and collect acorns shall we? We can make them into fairy cups (I am elaborating now, I am embellishing on just what a promising activity this is)'
and friend will go 'oooh yes' and so that's a date and off they go.

3+nomore that looks great, you can play wagon trains - and sing rawhide.

It reminds me - let me tell you this story i heard at toddler group today that made me cry helpless tears of laughter. My friend is american and got a new york accent. We run a toddler group together, someone from some early learning alliance type place called her to ask her some questions - somewhere in the conversations she mentioned she was going out go-carting for her 11 year olds birthday treat. This woman expressed surprise, and said that seemed like an interesting but very unusual thing to do. Yesterday she got an email from this woman - and at the end of the email it said, 'i do hope you and your family had a good time goat herding for your daughters birthday.'

hahahahaha. franny - you should organise birthday goat herding parties - it would be great!

Yes 100x, it'll make a big difference if there is one girl who isn't interested in the bad baby game. There are some really loud and bossy girls in her class and they all struggle to be the loudest, and dd1 gets quieter and quieter. I was talking to 3 of the mums about it today, and they were all laughing about the power struggles their 3 girls get into. I was trying to persuade dd1 to just say that she didn't feel like playing this game, and had a much better game. It's getting up the confidence to do that once. I remember starting school, and the older girls would adopt a small girl and make her be their pony. I hated being made to gallop with a skipping rope round my waist - i remember exactly where dd is. And one day i said to them that i hate being a pony and i'm not playing. And i was so surprised how easy it was, how they said 'ok', and wandered off, and i had to think of something else to do. She just has to realise that it's fine.

Gosh i'm talking a lot today.

Oh Boco, for your dd1. Can you invite round the tamest of the girls in the hope of nurturing a special friendship?

Go 100x!

Oh, and I found a lovely site for Franny, for when she does her woodsy things, just look at these fairy boots

Carota reminds me of an 80's brand of imported fizzy pop. I don't know why - why do i think that?

Goodness me, girls you can talk....just come back from our shopping trip. Well, the Boys loved it and we got quite a fair few looks (and that was without me singing rawhide, lol...I suppose not many people over here have seen such a thing...in germany they are used a lot....well....it was bloody heavy, though....the shopping and one of my boys...well...all adds to the daily exercise eh...done Nell McAndrews maximum impact this morning...so, did already good on that front, lol!

Anyway....now that I found where I left off yesterday.....

Avi...montessori ones are meant to be good....not that there is one here , of course...lol....!
Oh, and where are you...as far as I rememebr in england, wales and Northern Ireland Nursery places are free for all children from the term after their 3. Birthday...and I think that is the smae in scotland, too...
OH, and semolina works well in potatoe dumplings...if that is any help

Franny, oh dear on ds being an a**e again....

100..so sorry about your ds'2 experience with that horrible man But I think you sorted it brialliantly...well, or lets hope they sort it...but you did good

FMV aka TB..I thought it was you, lol!

Oh Idris...Kids in the morning can be even more of a trial than at any other given time, eh! But lol at his comment....
Also, you mention you are in bedforshire...not far from you then, probably...am in Northamptonshire....

And that someone doesn't know who Owen Wilson is...now...unbelievable that is, lol....he is a odd looking chap though, i can never decide if I find him attractive or not, lol....
I liked him in the wedding crasher and in you,me and dupree

Pink....lol...I watched Lost in translation...well,or part of it and well, certianly was not my cup of tea....

Talcy, don't believe that franny....

nappyneeds...I would stagger f&v buying over the week...not daily but about 3 x a week...works better for us anywya...and don't listen to that lot that tells you we are notninto f&v anymore....theya re all crazy...

(((Ernest)))

Possum,glad you are seeing positive changes in your bodyshape since doing the 10/10 thing!

lol at lionhearts quit picture

Overun...what is that all about...where are your Kids that they "can't" change there bottoms?

Sauerkraut, I am so sorry to ehar about your Kitten...that is so sad

Boco...hopefully your lil one will settle properly in school again, soo...oh, and looks like it's your Birthday today then...so, Happy Birthday
rofl at the goat herding-go-carting confusion, that is so funny!

Hm Mrs. C...I have gotten so used to calling you mrs c...I like that Not sure about carota...reminds me of carotis...

100 you are marvellous, ruddy marvellous. I hope you feel better about it all.

3andnomore the cart looks fantastic! I looked at one of those once - the price seems very cheap on that one - is it quite well made?

TooT LOL at fairy boots

ROFL at goat herding

and sorry for dd, Boco

so sorry to hear about the kitten SK

MrsC can we still call you MrsC? Are you this flighty about everything in life btw? This name thing is a serious business you know and you are MrsC (or MrsCunting) to us now, you know

anyway this made me laugh:

"I can't imagine anything about me that might make me an alpha mummy.

I am having a berry almond and linseed smoothie and marmite on Caraway toast."

Overrun why on earth do they need you to change the children's nappies?

Lionheart LOL I missed that

[grr]

It's Boco's birthday? Oooh

I miss everything

thank god for 3and's precis

oh ds was fine at nursery. Not an arse at all. We had a nice lunch and are off picking blackberries when I can tear myself away from your delightful company

I made a lovely carrot soup on Sunday and I'm having that for lunch this week along with a small bunch of grapes, one apple, one pear, one banana and two tangerines.

I'm going to turn into a fruit tree at this rate!

No it's my birthday tomorrow, please say happy birthday tomorrow.

I don't really like my birthday - I always get cross that dp didn't get a surprise, because i like surprises and i'm demanding and unreasonable.

He went to look for something thoughful, but they'd sold out of this particular thoughful thing, so he said he'd try again in a couple of weeks He wasn't bluffing either, so that it would actually be a surprise, because the girls both backed up his story and they're too small for pretending convincingly. And my mother just called to let me know that she is very busy hasn't got me a present, but she is babysitting, in a defensive way.