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

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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.

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

Yes Lionheart, it would appear I have now. While I was stamping it worked

womble - glad the weaning thing worked - you must have had a welcome relief for 40 mins.

PSW - i rinse mine between emptying, give good wash at the end and then sterilse by blasting in the microwave when period starts again.

I have had a spooney day. It is muggy, no, or is it just here?

We are trying to sort out our passports for a very un-10/10 holiday early November to Eurodisney for dc's birthdays. Well, you can get great deals and it combines halloween and both theirs so no parties, no organising invites and cakes, just three days of consumer hell and observations of European outfits and bizarre honeymooning couples at the Beauty and the Beast parade. Oh joy. We took ds1 for his 6th birthday and he LOVED it so we thought we'd do the same for dd except we told ds1 it wil have to be for his birthday too, ha ha. He is very excited. They will love it. Can I stay?

Anyway, after arranging the highly irritating forms for Lo's first passport and our renewals I trekked to town with ds and my bosoms to do the check and send. It was all fine till she said, old passports and photos please. I stared at her blankly. Photos? I think she thought I was a nutcase. Do I need photos, really, oh I do, well bye then I must go and get them. Arse. I look like a bunny boiler in the new one and it is really is quite a torture getting a new one when the old passport photo of a decade ago looks so sprightly and yooong, especially when one is having a crisis.

I said, aha, ds1 is skiving an is in the football shop next door, we will have oout photos done now. She (gleefully I'm sure) reminded me of the countersigning for children unless he has'nt changed appearance in the last five years. Ha bloody ha, so we couldn't send them after all. I got a taxi home.

Ha, talking of dysfunctional families, I am trying to do a runner this Christmas and

have even considered Eurodisney.

Have not organised the passport bit yet.

Thanks BBB. By the way thanks for the flour link the other day but I'd already been to Tesco and my local one doesn't sell it. I'm going to buy plain flour and baking powder tomorrow and try out TooT's apple cakes. (Sorry if it's not TooT!)

I had a break neck passport thing for europa park - I thinkwe went to send and check three times before we passed!

oh god PSW of course - you just put baking powder in normal flour - it says on teh side of the baking powder pot how much to add to make plain into SR!

I am eating homemade (by DH) vegetable soup .

See, that's why I haven't started on them yet.

I have to go back in the morning and hopefully the forms are in order. I am going to buy another wooden animal, this time, a rabbit. Well, we have a running rabbit but there is one that is sitting up with a carrot.I covet the fox too.

Avi - where are you, fellow ENTP??

That sounds quite positive wombling, even though meds maybe be trickier. I remember how difficult it was to drop a smidge of gripe water into DS when I was supposed to be doing so after feeds, let alone anything more complicated.

I have been sucked in by Facebook - my defence being my sister is going travelling soon and it will be a great way to keep in touch & see photos etc but in reality I throw sheep at my workmates and p*ss about rather too much with it.

I abhorred smoking (my dad smoked heavily) until I was about 17 and then for some reason tried it, and liked it, and then spent the next 15 years trying to stop doing it.

We have a goose and a dog too. They are comforting. Although, buying a new one each time I go to town sort of defeats the one toy in a stocking, Little House in the Big Woods vibe that they give. If I try very hard I can imagine someone whittled them for me. I pretend they are for Lo.

Talking about drugs, dd came home from school and said 'what are E's?' and I was a bit shocked as i wasn't expecting this conversation for another ten years, so i asked her what she meant, and she said 'well me and Kate and Mimi all had E's today, it made us go mad' and i kind of did a dumb shock thing, and she said 'the dinner lady said we must have all eaten E numbers for lunch'. Phew.

I feel the same about them as Franny did about the wooden asparagus I think.

I am going to bed. Goodnight.

I need pictures of the wooden rabbit I think

Okay, prompted by what a couple of people have said recently, and by the fact that I have once again come to the end of a catch up read and forgotten everything I intended to say (because I'm not organised enough to take notes like 3), may I propose something?

We all know what an active thread this is, and that it can be difficult keeping up, and I just thought that if we had a policy of nobody ever getting offended if people don't get around to replying to specific bits, that might be nice. Not that I expect anybody to get vastly offended as I think we're all quite laid back really, apart from Franny the self-confessed control freak.
But a couple of people have said recently that they don't come onto the thread much because they are worried about not keeping up with people and saying what they should, etc, and I thought that was sad.

Sorry, this is far too long winded. Can somebody condense it? My knee hurts.

"I think we're all quite laid back really, apart from Franny the self-confessed control freak."

that's offended me

otherwise, yes

I should have put a winky in really

OR SHOULD I

Oh god, you're not really offended are you Franny? I am feeling very gullible.

Ds1 and ds2 talk about their winkies. Were you really going to put one of those in?

Come back!!