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.

Zippi what did you mean about how do you know who you are on Facebook?

Oh sorry, do you mean how do you know who each other are? I have kept my MN and my facebook ID's separate up to this point

Zippi [stern] you are not being a bit manic are you?

yes i meant apart from people who say my mumsnet name is so and so I have no idea who any of the people on mumsnet group in facebook are

my identities are separate too cos nightmare people coming on here and reading stuff

especially if it's about them

I think I've been a bit like that for ages so so I'm quite ok with it I think ie quite consistent...it's all the changes in my life and doing a lot...i am keeping track

please don't worry

I forgot to tell you all, ds brought up the topic of Father Christmas the other day so I sort of broached it not being absolutely 100% fact. He took it very well but I am not sure it all went in. He was asking questions that I would have either had to answer with direct lies, or kind of fudge a bit and hint at it being a lovely story kind of thing, which I did. I said something like "Father Christmas is like a lovely story all about the magic of Christmas, and all the mummies and daddies get together to help with the magic and make it come true." I think he is about one quarter knowing and three quarters believing, right now....which is fine by me.

I am worried about the 3 am thing

yes that was too late...I shall go to bed earlier tonight..I am working at the mo this po strike is a pain as i have to post tomorrow and loads of people are ordering stuff..though i think a lot of it is for christmas and I'm out all day

and thank you for worrying...sort of I appreciate it

my dd1 and ds are both living with me

No-one has come forward and outed me on the schools thread...perhaps that's a good thing

Franny I didn;t keep in touch with anyone I was at Uni with, apart from 1 bloke I knew only in my final year. Your post about "sometimes it's easier to leave it all behind" struck a real chord.

But I am hopelessly curious about lots of people. I can't remember most of the surnames, which doesn;t help at all.

Boco I didn;t realize you went to FE High, I used to live in Stoke Holy Cross, until about 3 years ago. Although didn;t live there when you would have been at school

Well zippi if it gets annoying (me worrying) just say so

oh the person on the schools thread has replied now

it is lovely to hear from her and she is going to get me back in touch with her sister

she told me 3 of the couples we knew at school are still together

I can't get my head round that - how long have you all been with your dps? (I know Tatties as is same day as me that they met ) We have been together 8 years this year and it seems like soooooo long. If we had met at school it would be like 20 years or something

I shall..if it gets too high

oh you have reunited yourself

I'm glad you've been outed then, franny.

I have been with DH for 12 years. I don;t know anyone from school who is still with someone they met then, I don;t think. I am still in touch with quite a few school friends.

FK my best friend at the time lived in Stoke Holy Cross - her name was Susan White. I lost touch with her when i moved. I didn't like that school much, it was big. I liked the school i moved to much more. It was small.

I've been with dp for 12 years Franny. Ages.

12 years does seem like ages

can I ask something personal? Did you have to have a big adjustment kind of thing after you had been together for a long time, when you moved from a "new" relationship to a long long term one? Did you have any difficulties with this? I have never been in a relationship for this long before and I am finding it hard to adjust. I think I need some help with it.

FK I just outed myself discreetly to the other poster when I recognised her. We are not going to tell her sister our MN names

hello

what's this thread about then?

can't quite work it all out

Evening all! It's all sorted hooray! God the other night I was all twitchy and couldn't relax, that's not good is it [eek]

TooT I am glad you got it ok Your children are beautiful btw, I really love the one of all of them together with painted faces. You make it sound wonderful to have four. I have always liked the idea of four children, which is a bit of a shame as I don't think I could ever cope with more than one

MrsC hello! Great news

Franny about RocketDogs. Mine are fine, if anything I notice the occasional ankle rub. It is awful having awkward feet, you have my sympathy. I wish I could go barefoot all the time. Now it is my turn to ask your permission to copy footwear - I have just got those black stretchy boots from La Redoute and am trying to decide whether they are ok or if I need to go down a size. And wondering whether you mind?

8 years seems like forever to me, I can't imagine what it was like before dp.

Now I am feeling a bit sharey and may put some more photos up...

JoFan it is about eating fruit and vegetables and exercising, of course

can't you see us all eating fruit and vegetables and exercising all the time?

Tatties please share. And please copy my boots, I haven't actually worn them yet just saving them for a day when I need boots and the Big Fuck Off Boots are not smart / feminine enough for the purpose. I would highly recommend getting a pair of the BFOB though, I have several times caught women doing a U turn to watch them go down the street, and today someone stopped me in the playground to ask where I got them from.

Franny I think I am still in that period of adjustment and it has its good and its bad times. I struggle with it a lot. I don;t really want to say much more than that, because otherwise I might go on for ages and crash MN

Before meeting DH my longest relationship had been not much more than 18 months.

Oh please go on lots if you want to. I need advice with this. I am trying to think about it in a different way, ie entering a new phase of our relationship. Rather than listening to the sound of doors slamming loudly on freedom, youth, excitement, passion and promiscuity

Had a little read thru. I've been with DH for nearly 9 years - met when I was 18

Had plums, leftover lentil and carrot soup, chocolate cheesecake > apple, apple juice, figs, apricots, veggie omlette, beans. Not bad but no exercise today apart from playing in the leaves

Yes we had adjustment problems at various points i think. In the beginning for the first couple of years there were some teething problems mainly to do with him being a man and therefore having oddness and an inability to communicate properly. Once early on we had a big argument and i was very cross with him, so he went out and bought me a packet of crisps and stole a cat from someones garden. He thought crisps and a stolen cat would totally cancel everything else out. He's still a little bit like that. If i'm cross or sad he always wants to make me a sandwich. He's like a jewish mother. Actually his gran is like that, she's Polish and forces you to eat weird processed turkey products with pickles. God i'm really wittering now.

Anyway half way through - sort of 6 years ago we had major adjustment issues and split up for a while. And it was hard but good as when we got back together we were both very sure and certain and it was good then. I should go to bed before i share too much again.

still unsure

do you want to know what i have eaten today?

then di i get a score?

Not a score JoFan but sometimes if you do really well you might get a badge

ooooh i love badges

do crisps count as a vegetable?