They're Changing Chard At Butternut Palace, Crispy Rocket Went Down With Radish - 10/10 Club

[TooTicky]

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

Hi everyone

I am feeling very flat indeed today...

DS and I had a fight about a pear at 5pm and it turned things a bit sour generally.

And I have been angrily hemming a dress, which now has a very wonky and amateurish hem which is a shame because it's a lovely dress that was just the wrong length.

We had some experience of this croup / asthma / bad cough thing last winter. DS had a persistent, quite severe cough for about 3 months although it was not actual croup.

Afetr about 3 weeks his nursery started mumbling about asthma and stuff so I took him to the GP, who said the same thing about it being difficult to diagnose under 5's and so on.

They offered me an inhalor which I refused because DS didn;t really seem to be suffering with the cough, I think it was actually annoying us more than him.

Anyway it eventually disappeared and this year he has no sign of it (fingers x).

DH also suffered from really bad croup as a child and was hospitalized on several occasions but grew out of it at some point, and doesn;t have asthma or any other chest problems.

I would be very wary of this tendency (imo) to treat these things as asthma.

Yes, that's pretty much what the doctor said tbh, that it's often just the winter viruses that affect some children more because airways are narrower. He said the inhalor would help whether it was croup, asthma, viral wheeze or bronchiolitis and to watch out for further breathing trouble. He hasn't shown much sign if this though, just a cough, which, like you say is actually more annoying to everyone else. DD sleeps through her cough while I toss and jiffle and think, oh just shut up and then feel guilty.

He's up again, wide a bloody wake. He is 'dancing' to the match of the day tune in ds1's birthday card, over and over.

Paella, however, is a triumph. I think it's the smoked mussels and the fact that it has christened my birthday le creuset pot. It is huge and turquoise and comforting. There is something of a mother ship about it.

I'm so sorry for you two with your wheezy, chesty, poorly children.
It's so very distressing when they're having problems with breathing and can't sleep and so on...

Oooh at the turquoise mother ship

right about the photos

no-one has objected and loads of people have said yes so I am sending them to those people whose email address I have

if you don't get one send me your address on frannyandzooey at india dot com

Officially the last words George V uttered were "God Bless the Empire". Apparently what he actually said as he expired on his death bed was, "B*gger Bognor".

I have just eaten a rock-hard mellon. Consequently, I now have indigestion.

I have just received the photos. It looks like some sort of gathering of the Vegetable Clans, McLeek and McRadish having a family knees up. Hmmm, I see what you all mean about Mr Aviator, it almost makes you forgive his predilection for diggers.....

Actually I've just eaten a melon, not a member of an august and flithy rich American dynasty.

Flithy?
Blardy hell, this indigestion has given me a lisp

Thank you for the photos .

I am now enjoying myself trying to work out who is who .

100 says she knew straight away who everyone was

the annoying thing is she is probably right

I think I am. If PSW is sitting down on the far left, and then its Tatties, FMF, Avi, Wombling, Franny, Boco behind. Then from the front sitting down, Bee at the front, TooT behind, Mrs C over the table, then FK, then Lionheart hiding behind your dp.

Full marks or not?

Oh and Zippi between Fk and your dp and Lionheart.

It's v quiet on here tonight. I am feeling tired and can't be botherdish, and have lots of boring housework stuff to do. Feeling too sleepy to get off the sofa. Also radiators in front room not working so am snuggled under cosy blanket while dp does fixing stuff with teapots and valves and stuff

And you all look divine, of course. TooT looks about 12.

oh! you've come back. How did you do that 100x?, altho I am pretty easy to spot!

Toot is beautiful & does indeed look like Winona

Has anyone been to St Thomas Hospital before?
I have to be there very early tomorrow morning...Waterloo East seems to be the best station but not sure......

Was I right Wombling? Oh good. Now all is right in my universe.

100x, you are a smug git

Sorry LL, I have no idea.

It certainly seems that eating a lot of fruit and veg makes one gorgeous and produces beautiful offspring.

This is obviously where I am going wrong.

Vanity is a great motivator for change

LL Waterloo sounds right to me. St Thomas's is just further along, on the river. DS1 was born there.

Seriously TooT, how old are you? 15?

ah......that's filled in the mysterious few
thanks 100x

Nonononono

that is Pink with the beard

I am hiding behind her but you can see my eyebrows peeking out alluringly

the 'lady' at the front is my dp I'll have you know

and the blonde woman with the glasses and the teeth, I am not sure who she was, someone who wandered in from the street maybe? Nobody spoke to her anyway

LL no idea here either but hope it is a fruitful visit