Why do you build me up, butternut baby, chestnut lentil me down? 10/10 club - all welcome!

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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.

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am I the only one with chocolate ones?

I bought 2 cadbury ones in a late night tiz in the co-op. I bought them home and DS infomred me that he now only eats fairtrade chocolate and I had to go to oxfam today.

I think DS is more 10/10 than me!

Yay for BBB's fairtrade ds!!! Oh and lol at the Time Lord - even dh laughed at that one

3 large cheers for Bee's ds!

oh carrot i knew i should have spoken more to you!

i have been doing the children thing solidily for ages and hte studying was always very much pie in the sky - something I would get round to eventually. Now I have flung myself into it i have no time to do things i like (you lot for one) but I am so in love with it. it has opened loads of doors for me and a different social life and a diffeent focus. I would say to anyone who was thiknng about it that it is well worth doing - however, in assembly yesterday a woman next to me had a little 1 yr old girll with those pudgy marshmallowly hands and i did do a bit of a melt and wondered for a few minutes....

I am envious. I love that Autumn/leafy booky feeling of striding on to the campus and you feel really enthused about your work. There's definitely something to be said for doing degrees later whe you really have chosen the right one, though course the student 'experience' isn't the same when you have to make arrangements to go the bar afterwards and in the main hoof it up to the nursery.

When DD was a baby she would often come in with me to art school and sit outside a room (asleep) if I had no childcare. We weren't meant to though, had to keep an eye out for the technicians.

I miss it but couldn't do it at the moment, I've just read a book for the first time in months. The Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox, it's a very easy read and nicely written. I can't believe men used to be able to have their troublesome wives/daughters put away with a signature from the GP.
A small pice of pear so far. I am very tired as it was windy, DH is is Bristol and a gate kept banging in the wind. I went out to try and locate it at 3am but no luck then I coldn't get back to sleep.

The I put onion marmalade on my toast this morning as I didn't read the label properly and my nose is blocked so I tasted it first. Bleurgh.

Where is Franny, is she still eating the potato?

Oxfam usually have nice paper ones with things like a winter scene on

For the real deal last year I went to Covent Garden, to the toy theatre shop

will see if I can find the photo and link, it is stupendous

Good morning all.

National Trust do normal ones with children round a christmas tree too Avi, if you have a shop near you.

We don't do chocolates either. We have big ones with glitter too MrsC. I found a good Lemony Snicket like one for ds1, is a big dark house covered in green glitter, I am trusting that when the windows are opened it will fill with light and colour.

They just came from a card shop. I don't think we've ever had a chocolate one, the others are usually everywhere. Probably in WH Smiths too Avi.

Is the Xmas School Fair today. I am in charge of tattoes! Good grief. Last year I did face painting and that wasn't good, the children kept looking in the mirror afterwards and saying 'what am I?' and I would say 'you are a butterfly' very emphatically and then tell them to run along.

I have stuck 2 pictures on here

the problem about saving the same calendar for a second year, is that the doors are slightly open, and ds has already peeped behind the Christmas Eve door

Oh! Franny! That is the Lemony Snicket one I have for ds1!

Yours sounds like our one 100

LOL cross posts a go go
it is lovely and the pictures inside are quite sweet

ds likes the moped parked out front

lol. Ds2 has one with FC and his reindeer and a horse on it too for some reason, and dd a very nice street scene one with marvellous houses. They come with ribbons and are tied onto the bannisters in the hall.

I make up for the absence of chocolates by having lovely calendars. I like them too, we all gather round each morning and everyone says 'can I go last?'

oh god SOMEONE has a chocolate one surely!

Oh, that is the one we had last year for ds1, he loved it and I looked for it this year and couldn't find it.

100x - it does fill with light and colour, it is wonderful. The ones we have this year are nice too. I couldn't find nice German sparkley ones in the main shops, I had to go to a little special one that sells doll houses.

We had the divine choc ones a few years ago, they are quite nice too.

we are going to a festive family kind of thing at the bookshop today. It is a non-chain bookshop and so i try really hard to go there but there are never any offers - the last flanimal book was half price in borders down the road - how i bulked at paying full price!

is anyone going to mass mumsnet xmas thing? I think zippi is - franny tell me why you aren't - I have heard hints of a story...

oh 100x - dress works with jeans underneath. thanks.

Our father xmas is on a horse too.

I wore dresses over jeans, not very good legs really

Bee oh probably because I don't like half the people on MN and vice versa

that could be something to do with it

I like trousers under skirts because it makes me look more balanced

otherwise, skinny legs and barrel top

The chocolate ones have crap pipictures, we always had them.

Mine are evry aware of the chocolate situation so we have a bag of coins. I donn't think they'd mind though, they didn't ask for them. DD has been talking about the toy picture in hers for an hour.

BBee - oh good does it? I do that when I think I look too erm, curvy, to just wear with tights and boots. But then I have been known to muck the whole thing up by feeling cold and deciding to put on a cardigan too, and then it's just way too many levels.

MrsC - no he isn't sitting on it. He is in his sleigh, and there are reindeers pulling through the night sky, except one of the reindeers is a horse. I got it for ds2 because I knew he'd say 'why is there a horse there?' and I could say 'You tell me.' This did happen, except he didn't say 'Well because blah blah' he said 'I dunno, it's stupid' and that was that. Apparantly he's eight now, not four. I keep forgetting.

sorry i am just posting compulsively now

I am fretting about my MIL and I don't want to go to work

must go and put a horrible aertex shirt with a logo on - THAT is going as soon as i start to look pg

"sorry boss I can not fit into it any more, i need to wear this nice attractive top instead what a shame"