Super cauli-veggie-tastic-Vit C in high doses ! - 10/10 club - all welcome

[filthymindedbolshevixen]

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

Bonsoir...

I have had celery, cucumber, more celery, more cucumber, pasta with tomato & spinach, strawberries, mango, grapes.

I feel like I'm getting back on track, but I have a lurking migraine

Oh dear I was just hitting my stride as usual and then it was time to come home. Blah.

FMF thank you so much for organising the thread beautifully while I was away. And am so glad LL got her parcel safely - and you know perfectly well you were the ones who came up with the fab ideas for the parcel and sent all the contributions and sent me shopping. I just did the donkey work (and it was fun anyway).

I was thinking about the thread on the way home and feeling maudlin about the fact 100 is not here. I am very fond of 100 and I may have to write her another poem if she doesn't come back soon [threat]

LOL at "just because you have a tree in your garden doesn't mean you can't look at the forest". I have been looking at the forest this weekend and it looked GOOD

The festival was lovely, set in marvellous gardens and a little wood which was covered in fairy lights in the evenings with loads of little toy figures and so on all over the trees. And a huge tree lit up with built in bookshelves and seats around, so you could go and read in the dark. They had Jude the Obscure and The Hotel New Hampshire so I was happy.

There were peacocks wandering around, and a circus tent (ds would wake up at about 6.30 am and say "let's go down to the circus tent now mummy"), and lots of drumming. There was a lovely lovely food stall called Food Groove and they gave me most of my 10 / 10 every day. The smoothie stall and the fruit we brought from home did the rest. Dp ate 2 meat pies and felt dreadful [predictable]. I was a bit freaked by all the cider and so on the first night. This is the first festival I have been to sober (did not feel up to it before now) and it did bother me the first night. Partly because you could just smell drink everywhere. But it was ok, and it wasn't a very boozy / druggy festival, I don't think.

The music veered between ok and very good, but I am never there for the music. The only thing that was a shame was that every night about midnight they had what sounded like a very good dj night thing which I would have liked to go to. But I was always too tired Ds woke up early and all the fresh air and tramping about did me in and 11.30 was the latest I stayed out. Anyway, I think I may have a new addiction . Chai - I found it so nice and buzzy and a bit E-ish. The people on the link that sell it are fab people and did brilliant drumming workshops too. I think chai is going to keep me warm through the winter.

TooT our tent doesn't fit in the garden Can one hire musical bearded men? Why did no-one tell me this?

Oh and I did a Laughter Workshop [fear] [disbelief]. Ha ha ha. How I laughed.

That sounds fantastic franny - sounds alot like latitude that we went to in July - dd1 asks if we can go back there all the time, was wonderful.

I really think 100 will come back - she's just got to finish her work - i think she's very clever for knowing how to prioritise real life - i'd like to be able to do that too - i must do that too! She'll come back when she's finished focusing i hope. I miss her too. Lets make each other poems to get through this difficult time [brave]

[wobbly lip]

ok

Franny it sounds fab.

I am quite at the sound of it and I have been to devon so have nothing to complain about.

I feel my non-lentillyness more when 100 is not about.

Quick, un-veg related question:
Where can I buy self-raising wholemeal flour? Can't find it in supermarkets (they probably think it's too lentilly) and health food shops seems to think it's too ordinary!

I think I may have laughed the wrong way in a laughter workshop.

I get wholemeal SR flour in health food shops - not H&B though, don't think they do flour. I buy the Doves Farm one which is great.

I need to know about the laughter workshop actually. I am desperately intrigued.

I laughed like the Dalai Lama and also like a fish

(if any lurker reading this was there fgs tell me)

wasn't it peculiar? I can't quite believe I went, but I desperately wanted to see what was going to happen, and you couldn't just go and spectate

some people there were genuinely very funny and nice laughers, and some were just . It was disconcerting.

Oh about the commune thing. I don't think I can do it. I come up as HUGE introvert on Myers Briggs scale and also am vast control freak. Will visit you all and feel but can't actually live there.

It was very oddly personal. People can be so vulnerable and exposed when they are laughing. Two people took a while to get started and then they couldn't stop, which scared me.

FRanny!

Oh htank god - it has been awful - we have all been drinking diet coke and eating refreshers - we didn;t know where to turn!

Glad you had fun, laughing thing sounds odd in a good way - chai sounds odd in a bad way.

I went to bookclub tonight and thanks to you and because we had read the red tent I started proclaiming the merits of teh mooncup and no-one knew what I was taling about so I got self concious and loud and then said "Well the only public acknowledgement I ever make about my period is not being able to do the shoulder stand in yoga" and then a man from the residents associatopn on the next table asked me (in a nice smiling way) to keep my voice down and then because I was embarrased I told the story about the swimming pool and the boiling mooncup.

And now I am cast out form bookclub.

BBB did they not like your story?

Chai is FAB how can you go on and on about the sex coffee and then insult chai? It has spices in and it makes you all warm and energetic and relaxed and friendly.

BBB, you are priceless!

Franny, that laugfhing thing really is quite freaky, isn't it? My mother is a prolific laugher and I rarely laugh out loud.

I have been playing scrabble with complete strangers. It's strangely liberating yet constraining and possibly addictive.

PSW I can't find organic flour for baking unless I order it specially

it is very annoying

TooT it did make me think about laughter and it was quite enlightening

I think laughter is quite close to fear isn't it? We are all ROFL on here because we are shit scared of life, probably

I got some self raising wholemeal flour in tesco

here

oh and before the workshop started I was chatting to a woman about what I was drinking (it was Kiki superfood in orange juice hence scary green colour). When I had done my bit of laughing like the Dalai Lama, she leaned over and said "I am definitely getting some of that stuff."

I want Doves Farm BBB. It is lovely.

oh yes - you can get that - I had it once but I think it was mail order.

You remember my cat had his nuts off adn now he has an infection? DP and I just had a arguement because I gave teh cat a tiny tiny taste of calpol. I know mumsnet wide they will flay me for this but it can;t really do any harm can it?

so the laughing workshop you just all have to, like, laugh?

Welcome back Franny,

Loving your work on the parcel for LL. Thanks for doing all the running around for it.

Chai is fab isn't it, I love it, makes you feel all toasty and happy esp when it is cold & wintery. My aunts always make it for me as a special treat when I go to visit.

Have been having house envy about the house we stayed in in the lakes last week. It was a rambling old stone house with a medieval part with higgledy piggeldy old oak floors, flagstones and thick waal, and a later 19th c addition with huge rooms, lovely light windows and wonderful proportions. It had two staircases, an hanbuilt wooden kitchen and a 4 oven aga, huge hillside garden with a barn and loads of outbuildings & enormous bathrooms. Would love to live there.

No idea about cat. I can understand why dp is cross, tbh. Or do you know about it and know that it's ok? Sorry he is not well.

No we did all sorts of things in a circle. we had to take turns. Very little of it was actually truly funny in a good way but my stomach was hurting by the end. Then I completely fucked up with a story about how I hated my old neighbour. We were meant to think of something funny ie seeing them on the toilet or something, but I just thought of something cruel instead. Everyone seemed appalled.

Wombling I love it. Are your aunts from India? Is it an ordinary drink in India or would it be used for medicinal purposes?

The house sounds like it would be about right for the commune