Tutti frutti - all booty - 10/ 10 club BOOT CAMP - all sign in and line up for parade

[FrannyandZooey]

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

No, I just realised that some people might think we had decided to have just one child

it felt a bit funny to hear ds described as an only child tbh! Even though I can see he is! To me 'only child' means a child in a family where the parents are not planning to have any more children. I know this is hair-splitting. And I know some people have only children not through choice anyway. And I will shut up now

well i'm thinking whether to go to the louise bourgeois exhibition at the tate modern today...is today the day i wonder as i have a billion things to do but that won't actually change so..i might as well in a sense

hello

zippi - go - the floor will be cracked and you can be bemused and complatative.

franny - I thought you did well.

100 - dinner party will be great - be contraverisal. The maramalde bread adn butter pudding wth brioche sounds vile. I go through bath on the train every day - what is that crap floating in the water - like bubbly scum? but bath is very pretty.

Okay - everyone tell me a BAD thing they have eaten and a BAD thing they have done in the last few days.

yes i am going...i've decided

Someone sent me a photo of the floor crack yesterday on dp's phone - I think it was HC but am nont sure. I think it looks great, I would love to go.

Bee I have been eating my way through a toblerone this week, is that bad? I don't think so but I am reaching here. I ate about half a packet of those crappy coated nuts last week before I realised my hand had even gone in the bowl. And I have done lots of bad things, but as usual I am not going to say anything about them on here

LOL have to share this lovely piece of schadenfreude

ds is mucking about with dp and said "Daddy you look like a lady". Dp said "yeah right and how mnay ladies do you know with beards?" Ds said "Grannie X has got one" (my MIL ha ha HAH) cue much smothered snorting

Franny - surely you can think of something worse than a yoghurt coated nut??

BBB Is this to make you feel better for bad things you've done and eaten? Or are we confessing our sins to you to cleanse ourselves?

Either way. Chinese takeaway on Friday and snapping at dh just now for washing up.

DD is out for the afternoon (so we can watch the grand prix in peace ) and I miss her [fret]

Hello, my friend and her new boyfriend have just gone. DD1 has sworn she wouldn't speak to him because no one would live up to the ex boyfriend we all love, but that lasted for less than a minute because new one looks like doctor who, and that impressed dd1 very much. (as in david tennant)

We've just had lovely sunday lunch outside in a pretty village pub and the girls played in the woods by a river with the dog and it was very pretty. Come home and dd has made me a card with a picture of a fruit fairy on, and inside it says 'thank you fo being a nise mummy'. I think it's making up for yesterday when we went to southwold for the day and she wailed most of the day and was very angry. I think because she's still a bit unwell, but it was very waring.

100 hope phase 1 goes well. And all the other phases. You're very good at the parties, shame you don't get to pace yourself though - October is insane in the hundred house isn't it?

Franny your ds sounds great and totally balanced - he sounds very able to put his own emotional needs first - you've given lots of examples of that before, i think he sound clever and sweet.

Well usually I think I come across exactly as I really am, (except ever so slightly improved of course) and then someone says something like "oh Franny I admire your honesty" or HC comes to my house and says "oh it is actually quite clean and ^comfortable" or people are in shock at me calling ds an arse and I realise I don't, at all

Have eaten lots of very nice food. Very cheesy pasta with different veg in like sweet potato, and blackcurrant trifle which was fantastically creamy and purple. And quite a lot of chocolates with tea.

The nuts were those salty roasted coating ones, and were not really 'bad', nor is fish and chips, is it? Things that I think are awful are things like wotsits or crap meat products and shitty takeaway pizzas. I haven't had any of those in the past week.

I am also impressed by the new bf who looks like DT, Boco. I like the card about you being a nise mummy, I can't wait for those (and Alice Miller can lump it)

I don't even know who this Alice Millar person is. And i don't know if that improves my parenting or casts a nasty shadow over it.

Afternoon lovely 10/10ers

We have been to an Apple Festival which was fab, there was a miniature railway to keep DS happy, and I ate a veggie curry and there was music and jollity. Have bought some quinces which I am not sure I have ever eaten raw, i mean not in a jelly or something. Will they be OK?

This morning DS once again got up at 5.45 so I took him back to bed. he tried to argue with me in teh bathroom and crumpled up saying "but your bed is so much more cosy Mummy"

But the trouble is, he wouldn;t have snuggled down and slept in my bed, he would have chatted and bumped noses and before long would have been jumping on my head, and we would have got up and all been horrible and grumpy all day.

In fact he went back to sleep and was still asleep when DH went in at 8.30.

I wish I knew what was waking him up, because during the week DH gets up at 6.30 so there won;t be much opportunity to get him back into bed and off to sleep again.

100 I am taking notes as to what one can expect for one's 40th birthday. at having to entertain so soon afetr getting back from a trip away though. We have a party at home about once every 10 years, that's about all I can manage.

Hello everybody
I have been brave and cleared the top of the sideboard and moved the sofa and cleared under and behind it and emptied and sorted the dreadful corner. I have eaten too much bread and not enough anything else. Am making tomatoey pasta sauce.

FK, we always miss the apple events.

My god TooT that sounds like a major operation of Braveness. I hate those kind of jobs but you do feel fab afterwards.

you can have a badge saying "I was Brave with a Sideboard today"

FK is he waking up cold? Or does your heating or hot water come on at that time in the morning, making a noise that wakes him up? We had a spate of 3 am wakings until I spent the night on ds's floor one night (he wasa bit chesty and it was worrying me) and we realised it was the breadmaker chuntering under ds's room to get bread ready for the morning

I think dd2 may join you all, as my representative.
She eats amazing amounts, probably her own body weight.
So, f&v. Hmmm. Veg lasaogne left overs of rlunch. nd grapes.
Veg quiche for dinner, with green beans, sweet potato, brocolli and carrots.

I think this is better, yes?

I also have a Wispa for later.

Have had sugar snaps and beetroot and cucumber and butter beans and yellow pepper, and hummus

and had prophylactic apple and pear before we went for lunch, and there was broccoli at lunch

shall we bicker about the title again?

littlerach but you have... hmmm... I think about 3 more portions of f+v to eat before that wispa [stern]

There are a number of possibilities I think, the most likely is he has stopped wearing a nappy at night. Last night I woke him at 10.30 to have a wee, but he still woke at 5.45. He had apparently been dry for ages at night, but I wonder if it's psychological.

I'm sure it will pass, but I dread being woken. Not being able to sleep when I feel I want / need to has been for me the most difficult part of parenting.

DH is a chronic insomniac and seems to survive, but I go completely insane after a few nights with less than my usual quota.

Can humous count in any way?
Have had that.

And nuts?

Am ow eating more grapes.

Oh, and had orange juice to drink (am I appearing desparate yet?)!