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

I really quite fancy it........ds would thrive.....he needs people
I would need my own corner to scuttle off to though.......

and they would write an article about us in the observer if we did.

ha ha..

only if cod came

I would not be good in a commune. Definitely need my bit of space.

My parents are here. I am supposedly tidying the kitchen ready for second course of supper.

The laptop is also here .

But that's the thing - the 'units' in this commune were self contained homes, no one can just walk in - it's private, families have their own sitting rooms and private spaces - and they're huge and really lovely. Friends home was so posh - and grand. Like a very large flat, all to herself. Makes it much more tempting. The kitchen was amazing - huge and really tidy and warm looking. And they had this one room just full of giant maturing cheeses!

Bee, will you please hurry up and have your go on scrabble, you've not been for days.

So what was the communal bit?

You all eat together and cook together - and you have to work 15 hours a week on the land or with the animals or on building or gardening or whatever, 3 of those hours have to be cooking or washing up. You all meet on a friday and talk about stuff and vote on things. There's only one kitchen - so most people do all eat together - and there are communal spaces, but you can also go back to your own bit. It's so cheap to live and you don't need stuff from outside, so most people either don't work outside the commune, or they only work part time, then the rest of the time they are in the 'cow group' or the 'fruit gang' or the veg gang or whatever.

We could all go and be in the v&v gang?

that'll be f&v.

I am the eldest

I am aren't I?

Dh mentioned my grey hairs the oher day

The commune sounds fascinating. I so couldn;t live like that, really, though.

I think that maybe possibly i could - i loved living on a Kibbutz. The girls would love it - it'd be a good place to grow up - but dp would hate it and it would never ever happen.

am the same as you bocs - we would love it - DP would have a fight on the third day and we wouldn't be bale to speak to some people.

Frayed - even if you are chronologicaly the oldest I found my first grey hair at 17. Also have old skin and liver spots.

Morning all! Went to a wedding yesterday, ate strawberry's on cheesecake, vegetable soup and a bit of veg with the yummy roast beef. Also spent £8 on half a coke and a double vodka and J2O

LL glad you liked the parcel (got a little lump in my throat reading your post!) As everyone has said Franny was fabulous. Laplanduk sounds fantastic!! I just showed dh the website and he said he had that idea once!

I don't think I could do commune living. I like to think I'm a bit lentilly but there's a fair bit of materialistic capitalist in me really Looks wonderful though Boco.

I like the sound of the commune very much. I often dream with friends about jointly owning a stately home and having communal areas. Think of the ceilings, and the grounds. Sounds lovely, DH would hate it too.

Speaking of staeky homes we are going to one shortly. Wolterton Hall has organic kitchen garden open day, there's falconry and they are opening the house for a textile exhibition as well. Should be a nice day.

I'm not sure I could leave behind the consumerism. I bought the Dior bib. It was £4. Dh despairs of me. I thought it was funny, there is like a joke in there, no? Just me?

That commune thing IS sorely tempting.

BBB, I am now more intrigued. Am mentally listing former USSR countries. I have visited Latvia and Lithuania (briefly). Am of him being able to speak lots of languages. I am a frustrated linguist. Jackie of 3 languages, mistress of none.

Was out late last night at a meeting eating garlic mushrooms.
Am making veg pie.

on my commune you can spend your extra money on whatever you like! As long as you chip in for the food/costs etc. And turn up when it's your turn to clean the communal areas My commune will like Old Hall. people can continue their proper jobs if they want and will have private appartments but we will all join together for cooking, child rearing etc, vegetable growing. And tree-hugging...

We seriously consdidered Findhor at one point. But we think our kids are tooold IYSWIM. I think if you do soemthing dso radical, the kids have to be younger so they grow up with the idea.

If we do every come into serious amounts of cash (big ) we will buy a big place and start one though.

I have 2 especially close and like-minded sets of friends with kids and we go off a lot togehter and often do a huge communal sunday dinner. Our kids are like siblings. And sometimes I think I love them all more than my real family...(ie my birth family, not dh and my children)

fmv is your dp into the commune thing too?

franny is so going to love our commune isn't she - she will be in charge of organising huge parties and celebrations and taking our children inot the woods.

Have been thinking loads about 100x SIL - boc if I email you can you forwad to her?

TT- DP is from Georgia, embarrassingly I didn;t even know it was a country when I met him - but I was all fresh faced and 19.

tt - more details on vegetable pie please.

we have been swimming - was good, we went ealry adn quite empty so DS could do his out of control thrasing around without splashing lots of babies.

dh is an anti-social git (a lovely one, but not as tolerant as me...)! So I'd probably just have to build him a secret garage in the woods for him to retreat into when he needed to play on-line poker and read old bike mags.

yes - there could be dp isolation pods and they can aome out occasionally to indulge in competetive dissapproval and rage.

At old hall they have a sauna on the other side of the veg plot for that. They have bee hives! They have this huge thing called the dragon to make their own heat and electricity too. They have so many acres that it's easy to go off on your own. There were people sitting in the orchards reading and children up trees. I reckon in february it'd be grim.

Bee yes i will forward if you want.

My brother and his gf are coming over now and we're going blackberry picking. Going to make a crumble.

everywhere's grim in february. It is my most hated time of year.

I think I suffer from SAD a tad

Oh me too. I need to move to a warm and balmy climate. Can we have our commune somewhere like a greek island - near the sea please?