Cauliflower Steaming On Such A Winter's Day - 10 / 10 thread

[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.

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old lday in slippers - with a puppy??? Are you mad?

I have Johnny Jet envy

But a dog will not fit in with my chickens-in-the-country idyll (or will it????).

dd would be in raptures though if we got one

(off to look for machine diagrams. well it is better than working I suppose)

zippi check your thread

they've gorn

I feel as usual strangely lacking in energy and gloomy

oh I saw the midwife and she said my iron levels were EXCELLENT

My mother's just gone too. She did her usual 'oh, I won't come for the cake, I'll pop over in the morning' then doesn't come in the morning but rings at lunchtime and sounds annoyed when I say he has gone to bed. She texted three days ago to ask when his birthday was.

I can't believe one woman can annoy me so much, standing right behind me trying to stick her fingers in the icing and then wanting a kiss goodbye with powdery jowels.

This is the calm before the storm. Dcs have disappeared and friends are coming for pizza at 5pm. Can I have wine now?

oh the next bit will be nice though won't it MrsC? Sorry about powdery jowls

my mother just can NOT BUTT OUT when ds is doing something. if you left your mother and your son doing a painting together, whose handiwork would you expect to be more apparent in the picture when you came back? Would you in fact expect to see NO EVIDENCE that your child had touched the brush at all?

mmmmmmmpizza

you had better drink mine onebat

are you alright?

Thanks

Yes, franny, the next bit will be nice and we have had a very day. DH and I went to a jewellers and bouoght him a tiny silver and cristal merrygoround that turns, it's so sweet, really its for me I think. He also has a big bag of wood, slices of tree and stick cylanders that make for fantastic building and some books.

For some reason after she leaves I feel flat, and drained and she seems to feel better. [sponge]

Right - I will leap up and get on and chill the wine. Hoorah.

Back later.

oh you know, the usual slings and arrows..
nothing too grim though.

oh my word @ silver and crystal merry go round

yes flat and drained. and kind of suicidal well slightly depressed

onebat come and join us on the sofa of gloom

it's that radiators/drains thing with your ma f&Z. some give off energy, others suck it all up

oh god it's nearly full moon as well

what the devil can I do with poor ds for the next 2 hours until dp gets home? He has just listened to a story tape for 1 hour while I slumped here

gert out whaever is forbidden thing in yr house? purse etc?

oh dear he has just gone upstairs to get his sleeping bag and is lying on the sofa and his eyes are closing

am not sure if I have the energy to stop him nodding off

oh used to hate that when dsses were little. ds2 was a bugger, he would drop off now and tantrum until bedtime if I woke him but would wake up at 4am if I didn't...

It's scary how annoying and draining everyone finds their mothers - will we be annoying and draining? I don't want to be! Is it inevitable, what can one do?

divorce the children asap. Tis a kindness. they''ll thank you for it latr.

The merrygo round sounds quite ghastly but it's so tiny it is really very sweet and intricate, only about an inch across with the tiniest little horses on it.

Gawd knows why I am on here, they are all arriving in 10 mins and I must clear up the vase of daffodils that has been massacred and strewn around and, um, wash up maybe.

in manner of totally baffled person, MrsC ?

I am determined not to be a drain but I its so hard to tell, I don't suppose they think they are either. I think there is someting soothing about being given food. My mother didn't cook much if she could help it and there's something lovely about being made cakes and soups or whatever.

I would like mine to remember me ladling from the mothership, but being interesting at the same time. How does one resolve that?

Hello everyone

Not having meetup just yet is OK by me, perhaps sometime in May? Weather should be warmish, shouldn;t it?

I'm sorry ot hear about Mothers. I can;t really sympathise except that my Grandmother is a very trying person, so trying to imagine her as my Mother rather than my Grandmother and I have palpitations just thinking about it.

Glad you are having a lovely day MrsC otehr than the jowls.

Franny, I wonder if you could do me a favour and send me the document?

DS says he is very tired too, and has been lying down. Hardly surprising, since he went to bed at 8, was up at 6, and has been to nursery. But he mustn;t sleep!

not baffled, onebat, just ponderous

FK, franny is having similar trauma over sleepy ds on another thread!

I try to radiate rather than drain. But I think I radiate the wrong things sometimes...