Samphire's Gotten Hold of My Chard - 10 / 10 club

[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

Don't worry Bee

zippi - you have to paint your toe nails - gold would be good.

are you writing a book?

I will post it. This week. You shall see.

oh i could do that..but they would probably be covered up

So, do I just get infested with ticks?
Oh no, this is reminding me of my "conversation" with 100x. Shall I tell you about it?

icky makes me think of sicky

toot and Bee - you are both uncannily accurate actually

(not too sure about knowledgeable - my memory lets me down at unfortunate moments. I have a tendancy to launch into things like ''Yes, yes, studies have shown that the development of the under seven brain is sevrely inhibited by...thingy. Y'know. What'ya call it...''

I am also a bit of a jack of all trades - master of none

I can manage to find some sort of moon-like appareil, I am sure!

[bounce bounce]

oh I want to know about your conversation with 100 but I am going to soft play now (heart sinks)

I will be back later with a headache and the early stages of SAD.

have a ncie time i imagine it will be deserted

I am not TooT icky, I am Too Ticky
Look, here I am

BBBee - are your children old enough to be supervised more loosely (ie you take a pile of sunday papers and an MP3?)

I have developed a wierd fondness for soft play entrance to Hades places as thechildren get older. One of my boys is often told he is too big for such places now and so, perversley, I miss them. Especially on a day like today when it is very wet, dark and windy here. Staying at home will require Interaction. Sigh.

I don't think it works to have some people wearing sparkly t-shirts and others not, but of course I may be proved wrong. I am pretty sure they were going to be purple IIRC.

anyway I think we will recognise most people (except of course the enigmatic lionheart)

I reckon I could pick most of you out in a line up

I will carry a copy of F&Z, and have a curly-headed 4 year old. You won't miss me.

Okay for anybody who wants to know, and because I really want to tell somebody, my (fictitious) conversation with 100x:
SETTING the park. We didn't know each other. Our younger sons were clad in pyjamas. I tentatively started a conversation about little boys who like to go out in their pyjamas.
We chatted a little.
Then I said, "He must have done it about A HUNDRED TIMES."
And then she looked at me in a considering sort of way and said," I never let him wear them near sheep in case they get TOO TICKY."
And then of course we knew each other.
It was great.
But the neighbours must have thought I was utterly mad, hanging out the washing and grinning broadly to myself and stifling squeaks of laughter.

PMSL!!!!

(I have those convos with myself sometimes. I did it all round Cornwall as I knew there were several Mnetters in the area when I visited, Megalegs being one of them. I saw a woman with very long legs and lots of boys and I had to stop myself sidling up to her and saying sidelong. ''Gosh, what Mega Legs you have''

I know Tatties of course, I'm sure I will recognise Zippi, and I am positive I will recognise F&Z (though the angelic blond is a giveaway..) just from her hair and chin . Toots I have a fair idea, but the others are in my imagination only at the moment....

lionheart will be clad in black footless tights and floaty things and waft around like kate Bush, surely?

LOLOL at TooT

oh it's priceless

yes you shall know me by my chin. It is quite distinctive. As is my nose.

F&Z, when I was 15 and had finally blossomed into something other than 'the stringy best friend of the lucious sex-goddess of the upper-fifth Pippa'' I was asked out by the sex-god of the lower sixth. We had a swoony day, wandering in the misty-moisty, Autumnal glory, discudssing poetry and music. And the he turned to me and sai the imoortal words
''You'd be quite pretty if your nose wasn't so....droopy''

Cue: at least 2 years of self-conciousness and attempts to train my nose to curve up a little in a pert, cute way...
Before i discovered a little minxiness can disguise a multitude of imperfections

I have a Nose too.

I like the pumpkin one or "That arti-choke isn't funny anymore".

fmf, did you hit him?

ooh! i posted much earlier this morning and it's vanished.

bit embarrassed about petulant , I was trying to make a joke, sorry!

no, sadly I was too crushed (and full of lustful hope he'd snog me in spite of my deformity)

I love the pumpkin title too

(I was toying with much lamer ones like ''If you don't like what you see here, get the pumpkin out..''