Plump up the yam, til your beet are stompin, and the jam is pumpkin - 10/10 Club

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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

Zip - that nice imaginative child is currently killing things on a PSP star wars game, if that helps at all. Then he'll stop, then he'll sing when he should be cleaning his teeth. He will sing 'Stars' from Les Miserables. We all sing Les Miserables, all the time. It's very odd. His musical theatre love is catching.

I hum 'The Master of the House' all the time.

I don't even like musicals much. Three months ago it was Cats, it is always West Side Story. He is soooo going to be gay.

Can I tell you about our supper? It was delish and a really good thing to do if you might be entertaining. It was a Nigella recipe but I've never come across anything quite like it (you will probably all tell me now you eat it once a week )

Basically you make a chilli - meatless or not, as you prefer, and cook 'til almost done. Then you make a cornbread topping by mixing cornmeal, an egg, milk (she uses buttermilk but I've no idea where you would get that from), tsp baking powder, and a sprinkle of ground cinnamon.

You whisk it up so it's like a thick batter and pour over the top of the chilli, grate some cheese on the top, then put it back in the oven for about 25 mins.

Mmmmhmmmm. And would be sooo easy if you had guests. No fiddling over cooking your rice just so, etc.

Right, now I've shared that, can anyone tell me what to do with my Romanesque thing for tomorrow?

Ewww - I haven't gone yet, I am obsessively checking ebay every night for a bargain sylvanian family house and I got this weird dolls listing here and had to show you.

They are hundreds of pounds and so bizarre. Who buys these?

No-one here has an original eighties sylvanian wooden house do they?

Franny - she came out with an armful of stuff from her tray, I expect it went in last week when we were away. Her mum works full time and I never see her. Just one of those things. DD loves going to London anyway, she is excited about it.

If he gave you something like this in exchange, would it help at all, Franny?

This is just to say
I have eaten the
plums
that were in
the icebox
and which you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

W.C. Williams

Is it the orang-utan, The Queen Elizabeth I, or the reborns?

First the puppet veggers and now those horrible dolls..

Dolls on ebay get much creepier than that.

See here or a lot of the vintage/antique stuff.

Actually, I quite liked that one.

I like all the dolls and when I am old and can't have any more babies I will buy one and take it out and hold it and I will not tell any of you about it, ever

Lionheart if someone ate my plums and then left me a poem instead I would make them sorry

Feisty, ain't ya?

(I watched The Unsinkable Molly Brown at the weekend).

That's what grandchildren are for Franny
(I am scared of all my dcs being big and not needing me. I am scared of not having a 2 year old.)

FK, I love Nigella but that sounds like it might "sink the ship".

Isn't it rather heavy?

I know what you mean, TooT.

I don't. DS1 and DS2 just had a mahoosive fight on the stairs. I pulled them apart by their bunny ears and put them in their rooms, and slammed the doors.

'There are no screens for a week' I shrieked.

Oh dear. Then dd called me into her room and wanted me to look at some strange thing she'd made and I was nice to her, but I was cross and a bit trembly.

I hate it when things go pear shaped.

100x, can you come and do discipline here? I don't think I am very good at it.

Not sure whose handiwork the thread title is but made me LOL.
I have had some broccoli today . Oh and vegetable soup for lunch.
Do the nuts in Nutella count?!

TooT, your children will always need you. They may go through a (long) phase of seeming not to need you but eventually, they'll be back. I desperately need my mother right now but I never have had a mother in the real sense, just a narcissistic witch who is incapable of nurturing anyone, ever. So, rest assured, as you sound a wonderful mother, those maternal qualities will keep on being called upon all of your life. Just in different ways to how you feel needed right now e.g. by a two year old.

Possum speaks the truth as usual

Olivia congrats at thrashing me at S%£"*&le. Fancy another game?

Oh TooT, I'm not very good. i was very screamy and I was really rough with them, and then ds2 was going off on one shouting his head off, and I put my hand over his mouth and said 'Now listen here' and was all 'you show me some respect' blah blah, and I was really, really angry.

Why?

I wasn't having the blardy fight was I? They were both mad.

DS1 started to say 'he took my' and I said 'I DON'T CARE. GET OUT OF HERE.'

I was a bit of a nutter. Mind you, it is quiet up there now.

Ahem.

Lovely lunch Olivia, and yes Nutella marvellous. And oh yes, my charming imaginative ds2. We were discussing him weren't we. Grrrr.

NUTS ARE NOT A VEGETABLE

[grumpy]

and anyway I don't LIKE them

oooh lionheart I love William Carlos Williams

and Wallace Stevens too: "late/
Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair"

I have done v well today have had half an apple and raisins, and some veg soup that my mother made which I thought would be vile but wasn't (bonus), and a banana and dried apricots and kiwi and orange and tinned peaches

and then dh made a spinach and turkey salad with mango and fried sweet potato

I am aglow with fruit and veg