Peas, Peas, Peas, Let Me Get What I Want - 10 / 10 club all welcome

[FrannytheDruid]

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.

just realised that I have only had two banansa sinbce brekafast so i am allowed food...hihip hoorya

Now you know we have had this out before

but every now and then I post my email address on a thread and say email me if you want information about heuristic play and stuff

and I get SCORES of emails saying "ooh I am a lurker but could you send me your info"

so BELIEVE IT.

100 you must be feeling exhausted.

Tatties I could lie? But no, not really. They are all coming next tuesday instead. I do like them a lot but the idea of an evening lying here playing scrabble and sniffing gently is quite attractive.

watch out here comes the internet floozy

I met my dp arsing around like that you know zippi

I know it gives me hope...at least it does if i can keep them to myself lol

Lurkers? Should I bung some lippy on???

I feel like I am running a marathon at the moment and there is no end in sight. i don't know how far I have run, and all I can do is keep on running until someone tells me I can stop.

I have had 3 miserable portions today.

ok....unanswered questions....i really must learn to read threads properly
Franny....we went to Dartmouth.....I have been going since i was 13 when my beloved cousin turned up there....
then i rented houses down there in my mid-late teens
then met ex (rented his house)
then met dh...getting lift to party in Dartmouth etc etc

My heart is there ,as are many many people & places beloved to me

Bee....about the sailor.....we canoodled & whispered sweet nothings till the sun came up & then reluctantly he went back to his bunk on the ship & I to my bed.......that is all
he was beautiful.....i do wonder sometimes......but he was young....i dont do young.............yet

oh fmf......what's up?

"but he was young....i dont do young.............yet"

Just wait 'til you get to 37, LL

FMV, can we help in any way? Even just by listening?

100 did you read my post about the weird fig cake thing I made?

No-one is as crap as me at making cakes

Third time lucky

or 50

only 2 yrs to go

nah...ex was 35 yrs older
dh 20 yrs older
he is the youngest yet

may have a toy boy when i'm 80.....we'll see

oh it's just stuff out of my control...as I said before, compared to some of you tis nothing. But....

MIL is very poorly, chemo after breast cancer (2nd time). My usually laissez-faire Dh is very down this year (obv reason, plus mid-life crisisy sort of things involving his sense of not having achieved what he thought he would have by this stage in life IFKWIM) I am struggling to keep him afloat. It's one step forward, two back.
There are long-term job issues plus a very pressing crisis involving an unscrupulous work premises landlord and a demand for £8,000.
Meanwhile, my job has expnaded to 4 days a week, and I am struggling as we are waiting for a new team member to be recruited. So two of us are doing work meant for at least 3. Also, the 'shock' of working more hours is impacting onto home-life - and with Dh the way he is, I am not getting the help I need. So I do everything and I mean everything involved with running the home. And we are skint and it is ds1's birthday looming, and then Dh's birthday and then Mum's and then ds'2's birthday (right before xmas).

So, there you have it. Marathon Woman...
Hence not been on here as much as I want to be. Have to go now and do packed lunches.

Oh FMF what a lot to be coping with, you must be knackered

Can I help with anything at all? I know I'm not that near but if there's anything at all, just say.

oh lovely......that's an awful lot to be dealing with all at once

how old are the lo's?

Thank you Tatts, not really anything anyone can do to help, but reading that litany of moaniness was good of you

On a brighter note, I was elected parentgovernor today. Which was nice. (but Gah! first meeting very short notice and dh is away.)

Ooh that's good FMF!

You know where I am if you want a moan or change of scenery, just give me a buzz

Avi, Franny mentioned a book about called something to do with sunbathing in the rain or something that is cheerful about depression.

I am in a "treating depression" phase at the moment. I am still feeling motivation which is good. Also nice that I am not at work on Tuesdays so I can play with DS and DD. We may go and find another wood. We found woods on Friday (just us) and Saturday (with DH). Very nice woods .

blimey ll 35 years perhaps i shal, take another look at my classmates tomorrow

wishing you well with depression too idris

Avi........Alf's was a fabulous & much needed addition to Dartmouth
I took my father there when it first opened...he was peering intently at the old wooden panels on the walls inscribed with boys names and proclaimed 'Good Lord....these were from my old school...I know these chaps'
Whilst he jumped about excitedly the owner admitted he had found them in a skip one day.

amazing really

We will be there...Dartmouth that is for christmas this year
I need people I care for around me....not the misery of people divided & choosing between folk
ds can have breakfast on the beach,fly kites,ride steam trains & I will be where i love to be best

where did you stay Avi?

hmmm zippi.....don't really do the age thing
if i like a person ..i like them

just never managed to find males of under a certain age attractive....i always had things for friends fathers
i fell in love with a 36 yr old persian dr when i was almost 14 & it went from there really.

Idris - I work in MH, but dh is a Man. And therefore crap at Talking About Stuff and dealing with depression. In fact, I'm not allowed to even say he's depressed low. He's just a bit, y'know, fnnnurgh, ok??

Let me know if you need any bolstering on here Idris. Seems a shame to waste my inate bolstering abilities on Dh

It's general I think in that I think I have depressive tendencies which can then deepen into depression proper. This bout I don't think is going to be very bad which is good (DH having realised it was there and so prompting me to do something).

Have had it on and off for about 15 years although didn't realise the first bout was what it was (was 17 and had had very unsuitable somewhat liasion with ancient person).

Have had another serious happening of it when I stopped being a teacher (very suddenly - one afternoon realised I couldn't do it anymore). That one was worst - proper couldn't get out of bed at all etc. Probably didn't treat it as much as I could/should.

Had another one when I found out I was pregnant with (unplanned) DD, 2.5 years ago. That one was pretty severe (needed time off work) but not as bad as previous one.

This bout has some root causes, but really a combination of things I think.