Dancing greens, feel the beet of the tangerine - 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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lol @ the sticker getting moved!

I think it would be terribly amusing to see it happen, but not if it happened very close to me.

I once had a top bird day. We went to somewhere probably near you MrsC called Welney, and all these swans flew into the lake at dusk and put their feet out on the water. It was wonderful - and quite safe as we were inside a nice building with big windows.

All this is a long-winded way of saying - surely they don't freeze in the air because that's why they migrate isn't it?

well, we knew you were amused by the death of the bird as opposed to the situation in general, 100

I am sure it isn't really possible for a bird to freeze midair but I wonder if they can just 'drop' dead - maybe have a heart attack or something mid flight and end up at you feet

The swans sounds lovely. It's years since I've seen a swan.

Tyne.

Lol at the sticker might move!! Good luck with the paper!

Bill Bryson talks about living in New Hampshire which apparently gets very cold in winter! Here is a bit of an extract about going out to get the mail in the morning without putting a coat on when it's minus 28C (minus 19F):

"Unless you have a particularly vivid imagination or are reading this in a chest freezer, you may find such chilliness difficult to conceive. So let me tell you just how cold it is: very.
When you step outside in such weather, for the first instant it is startlingly invigorating - not unlike the experience of diving into cold water, a sort of wakeup call to every corpuscle. But that phase passes quickly. Before you have trudged a few yards your face feels like it would after a sharp slap, your extremities are aching, and every breath you take hurts. By the time you return to the house your fingers and toes are throbbing with a gentle but insistent pain and you notice with interest that your cheeks yield no sensation at all.
-19 is unusually cold even for northern New England, so I was interested to see how long I could bear such an exposure, and the answer was 39 seconds. I don't mean that's how long it took for me to think, 'Gracious, it is rather chilly; I guess I'll go in now.' I mean that's how long it took me to be so cold I would have climbed over my mother to get inside first."

lol, I love Bill Bryson

And he's right - it hurts to breathe when it gets this cold. And it leaves you short of breath, as if you've been running. It's Not Fun.

Here I am...better late than never

I see some refinements needed to be made to the early waking technique before I rip it off get round to starting it

F&V today = mostly rubbish, hectic morning followed by lots of housewrk this afternoon (PMT gone and post-AF energy rush a bit early for some reason), so haven;t seemed to have much time for food. Supper was an omelette with peppers and aubergine with roast sweet potatoes though.

DH has just found a whole loaf of bread (still wrapped) behing the sofa - DS must have taken it and put it there...perhaps he is thinking of making his own breakfast tomorrow

TooT how are you feeling tonight? City farm idea looks good, but I am worried about dates. Hackney City Farm looks easy...has anyone been there?

Sorry, I meant "easy to get to"

i hope LL is ok after her brief reappearance she hasnt been back has she

well of course smoothies are nice

i think the last time i had one was the day after the big mumsnet meet up

you know what i quite fancy, just meeting for lunch somewhere and then spending the afternoon in a bar / tea shop / wandering around a park IF IT IS REALLY NOT BRACING

without any children

but I know this is probably not going to happen

I think I say teen you know.

Spending the afternoon in a teashop sounds like heaven!

Franny sorry your night didn't go to plan. I am not a morning person and I can never understand how children wake early, still tired, yet would rather get up than snuggle back down into a cosy bed for a wee while longer [baffled]

I am sure I had other things to say but I can't remember

people don't live near enough to just pop up for the day though do they?

well not many of us

i can o to l;ondon formthe day it is only 15 quid

I don;t know if I say teen or Tyne

I have thought about it too much

I think it might be Teen

But if I was singing it would be Tyne.

tyne..is t i not tee

Hello

DH used to work near to the Hackney City Farm. His work sponsored a duck (I think we were going to go there on DS's 1st birthday but it was closed that day).

I have been eating more F&V and feeling improved.

Hell Idris, nice to see you

I would come to London for lunch. I think I could manage child free now which would be a treat.

I could maybe manage lunch. If I book the train about a month in advance it's about £18. Would need to synchronise diaries though!

aHA now you see we are getting somewhere

hmm, nice quiet lunch without children

v

freezing cold mud

oh TooT I am being VERY UNGRATEFUL. Obviously we want as many people to be able to come as possible and you have said you need it to be cheap. I don't know how to make it cheap enough. I bet you will think of something. I have emailed you back but don't know if I was much use.

A child-free lunch sounds lovely. Not that I count because obviously I won't be there. Only in spirit

OverRated it will be somewhere WARM. TOASTY and WARM, think of that. I am sure you can pop over for the day.

I'm easy either way re children. Well, child, in my case. DS loved the adventure of coming up to London before, and going to a farm or somehwere would have appeal, but equally any time I get to sit down to lunch and chat properly unencumbered is great too.

'm doubtful that the dates in mind will fit with stuff though. When we say easter what do we mean actually?

Now, that's just mean Franny, teasing me like that