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

no but I would really fkn hate it if my family knew I was on here

ds knows I post and he knows the name of the website

I am buggered really, he will out me

Sorry Mrs C!
Ah Boco, yes!! I was in hosp over xmas with ds...were you? It was as nice as it could be under the circs. They brought us sherry on xmas day morning! And all the babies had little knitted gifts from santa. And all the menfolk were told by bossy ward sister they had to come in for dinner with us and had to bring Guinness

Some years we have to spend ds's birthday travelling to rellies houses. Other years we have great parties which everyone is very happy to come to as there is nothing to do with the children by then

F I have reported your post....

We just got an invite for Christmas Day to the family I used to nanny for

yay! ds is delighted, the two teenage girls are his favourite people in the world

oh no I already did it

I get embarrassed, i do this all the time

Possum....I think we all kind of re invent celebrations
Dh had a really miserable childhood,no birthdays,christmas,presents,family etc....mine were just... well...odd & tense because my family were just such an awful mish mash really.
I love Birthdays & Christmas & the whole magicalness of it all...it's slowly...very slowly rubbing off on dh too

this year...watching fc arrive in town & the christmas lights go on,making cards with copious amounts of glitter,advent calenders,decorating the house ,going to wilderness woods & choosing tree & making foliage decorations,going to Bedgebury for the lapland uk thing,painting pottery for pressies,seeing the snowman at sadlers wells,ds's nativity play,making gingerbread house,christmas pudding etc,.....will be how we do it

we are renting a little house in Devon & having Christmas with people I adore & that will actually have time for ds (sometjing our family do not)...runs on the beach...santa express ride & pantomime...walks in the countryside etc
leaving note ,glass of milk & gingerbread man for fc...hanging up stocking...leaving carrots out on the terrace for the reindeers ( which you chew up & scatter on floor ...for authenticity)
stocking opening...as early as happens
special breakfast & then presents

drum roll

ooooooooooh goody
And thankyou everyone.....I'm fed up with hospitals & incompetance & feeling generally grotty....but ok

Franny - I have had problems the last couple of days trying not using people's real anmes. WHich is ironic seeing's as though I could not remember anyone's real name on sunday

hurrah! MN Towers are on tip top form

But does he know your posting name?

My DS was very impressed to meet someone called PINK.

It is his birthday on Monday and party on Saturday--have never done a home thing but he wore me down.

I am on about 8 for the f&V.

oh they always are

I hope it was Olivia, she always manages to make me feel like Not a Complete Twat for doing it

my bloody ds has worked out my posting name - he knows my rl nickname and saw a thread and said: ''That's YOU!''

Bugger. FMV may have to return.

I am not sure lionheart, probably if he thought about it

I am very easily "spottable" on here though, once you know I am here, IYSWIM

I think the repetition of family rituals at Christmas can be very soothing as well as exciting.

It was critical that we used my Dad's rugby socks as stockings every year and this caused a huge crisis when my youngest sister arrived and there were 3 of us and only two socks.

We had stockings downstairs by teh fire which was (as I think I have said before) because I was terrified of father Christmas when small, but creeping down first thing in a cold house and finding them sitting there groaning with presents, while Dad lit the fire, and pretended to be as surprised as we were, was magical.

I feel that at some point I need ot make the break with tradition (spending Christmas at my parents')and have Christmas here becauase otherwise DS won;t have memories of Christmas at home. I am very torn on that.

Yep, I do see.

I would hate to be outed too.

Initially I couldn;t remember anyone's RL names from Sunday! Apart from Zippi's because it rhymes with mine.

I have been outed twice on MN before, a long time ago. It didn;t really matter, but now I jsut assume half my family and friends read everything I write and have to be happy with that.

I think it was geography and one specific personal detail that outed me.

Were other people using real names on Sunday?

I am sure nobody used mine

I was certainly asked what my real name was, I don't particularly remember beng called it

I was wondering how you all introduced yourselves...who arrived first & met first etc

yes who did arrive first and what happened?

I was late and missed it all

(I did PLAN to be on time, well, in fact EARLY, but we couldn't get parked at the station so we missed the train, then I had to go to the loo and the toilets at the station were closed, then we got on the wrong platform for the tube, then we realised we had no credit on our Oyster cards, then we got to Tottenham Court Road and ds needed a wee and we had to go in this theatre where they were having this huge religious rock gathering . Then we just got plain old lost for a bit )

ooh sworn to secrecy eh? were you all bitching about me?

Some things must never be spoken.

See! See! Enigmatic -- me.