5 onion rings, 4 cauliflowers, 3 french beans, 2 turnip tops and a parsnip in a pear tree - 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

You mean, someone actually liked one of my thread title ideas??

100x - I think the deaths save it, otherwise there would be no edge other than a mischievious valentines! I loved them all getting married too, especially Caroline to the butcher, that was hysterical. She had something of a fresh joint about her, don't you think?

Swooned.

Yes, it's odd isn't it. I always just wanted sit behind a fan and send out an indisposed card or something. Also when I was pregnant with dd I'd tell people and they'd just say 'good grief' or something.

Let's get a town crier to do it for you.

Caroline did yes, I couldn't stop staring at her. Imagine her in the butcher's shop [goggle eyed].

I missed last weeks, and you know what, it really, really didn't matter AT ALL. Not sure whether that's a good or a bad thing. It was all so excessive somehow wasn't it?

when I was pregnant with Lo, someone's husband said, 'oh no' How rude is that?

I mean, I was saying oh no, but that's not the point, he didn't know that.

i think it is awkward because you are basically telling people that you have been having sex. That's logic you see.

last week's was ok but no it didn't matter. I love the excess, the pomp and lace, and TEA, well, at least tea isn't a sticky merchandise.

Yes it's very difficult information to impart, you have change the subject quite quickly after. Also there's always someone who wants to try out the Groucho Marx line about the cigar, well I had one man who did. It was rather tiresome. It's not like we've got 7 children or something.

Impart news. Change conversation.

That's all that can be done, over the phone.

Oh, well done, Bbee, that is it, you are right. You are essentially telling people about something happening in an intimate part of you as well.

I am quite a show off in a small way (in case you hadn't noticed ) but this is making me feel awkward. So far I have only told a couple of people but I have built up to it so they know what I am saying before I say it, IYSWIM. So then they are usually squealing a bit when I actually say "and so you see I am pregnant"

I don't know what Cranford is. It sounds like they get indisposed a lot.

Ds is snipping everything he can find with scissors (including the Christmas tree) and when asked not to, says he is "building a bower to attract a mate"

It is awkward telling people you are pregnant. I could never tell people if we were ttc because for me it's too much like saying, "we are having regular unprotected sex, you know"

I just feel kind of small and shy like I have done something slightly embarrassing. As if I am walking around with my skirt tucked into the back of my knickers.

I would be annoyed at tree snipppig. I am one of those dreadful mothers that carefully evens out the baubles once they have gone to bed. Just slightly, so they don't notice.

oh god you are more subtle than me then - ds says while eating breakfast "I can see you have moved all the decorations again"

i don't know what cranford is either but i think i would like it.

this is how it goes:

"no thanks I am pregnant."
"Oh congrats - well done"
"Thanks, so what are you up to for NEw Year?"
"Oh James is spit roasting a pig"

Ah lots of x-posts, I'm slow today

Yes that's it Franny, you have done something naughty with boy and now you have to tell everyone

It wasn't me, the baby just appeared. I don't know how it got there.

Could anyone please look at my skirt thread? here

some of you have met me so it might be easier to say what will look nice

Cranford is/was the Sunday night drama for the last few weeks. Elizabeth Gaskell novel. She also wrote North and South.

There was a lot of bonnets and bustling. And death. Croup, typhoid, explosions.

And a railway cummin.

Right, must go do THINGS. Have been doing v. well the last couple of weeks. But I don't order things properly - like Christmas slipped quite a long way down the list, and it's been all 'sort out toys' and 'get ds2 a beside light' things first.

9 people here. Then 12 for New Year's Eve. Staying over. That's quite a lot really.

[chews pen]

New list, I think.

Mwah mwah 10/10ers

I should be doing things. Instead I will ring a friend and see if she wants a cup of tea. She gave me the cold so I can't infect her.

oh i should do the list thing - i so am going to do the list thing

100 do you have a special notebook or something or is it all on the edge of the newspaper and backs of receipts. Mine is the latter and the lists are lost.

thread titles:

away in a mange tout...
10/10ers ONLY get oranges in thier stockings

i can't do this - am not a natural punner.

100 i want you to do a thread about lists where you swivel on a chair drinking martinis and giving oiut wisdom.

I love "away in a mange tout"!

Ooh I like Away in a Mangetout!!!!

do you like it more than swoony mince pies?

Franny, the mind boggles a little at the squeal-inducing conversation that culminates in "and so, you see, I am pregnant."
No wonder you feel awkward.
What you can do, of course, is refer to morning sickness or scans or something in passing and then people will feel so silly for not already knowing you are pg that they will change the subject.