Dedicated Swallower of Passion (Fruit) - 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.

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

franny your ds & mine simply have to meet someday

blueberries,raspberries,nectarine,banana salad
vanilla porridge with toasted pumpkin,sunflower,hemp seeds

Thanks OR - Adds Mango to Waitrose on mental list of things NOT TO MENTION on 10/10 thread...

Actually I did have a nice mango yesterday but I think they key was having left it a week past its sell by date.

Just had raisins in my porridge so far but off to finish fruit salad from yesterday (providing dd doesn't rumble me and nick it).

OMG.

There were tudor houses with thatching and whittled sticks and some with wattle and daub fgs. We were as nothing with out brilliant beams made out of painted lolly sticks. And to think I was sooo proud.

JJ and I are counting the days. We are going out for our first walk on Saturday. We stood on the bottom step at the front of the house and sniffed the air this morning, he made a lurch for the pavement, but no, not yet.

Am going slightly mad.

Have eaten bananas, nice salad last night with broad beans and pancetta and mint and lemon, lots of red cabbage, clems AND SOME DELICIOUS PEARS. DS2 and I ate them greedily with pear juice on our chins, grinning at each other in a slightly demented way.

Seriously! Wattle and daub?! Wow, and think how you were with your plans and staying up all night and shouting - what would those parents have been like? Shaving horses at the dead of night, bellowing hysterically in the reed beds. What cost this head teacher award? Too high.

I've got fricking felting this afternoon. I'm not sure if i want to go, after last week. The woman is too strict, I don't like the group rules. I don't like felt actually, it's stupid. Stupid felt. I only went because it's free and has a creche.

I just had my house valued, had a shouty lady looking in my cupboards and telling me there was potential and laughing too loudly. I wished i'd dusted.

Am eating an apple

I have gone off felting too. I made those balls but I do not feel the urge to go on and make dolls and purses and the like and there are only so many felted balls one needs. So, Franny, yours is a limited edition. Call it 4/8.

100 - Some parents are absurdly competetive, there is an autumn show at our school and the kids make scenes on a theme and it is blatantly obvious which ones are done by the robot wars stylee parents. There are the usual lolly sticks, loo roll painted efforts with playmobil peopl stuck in, and then, and then there are some baffling creations where furniture has been carved and tiny cakes have been crafted from sugar and even lighting! Lighting for gods sake.

No fruit. The mango dares me to try it but I know its game. Two more days at least.

Trouble is with mangoes, if you leave them too long they start to go mouldy from the inside out.

It's a very fine line. An hour too early, they are hard and tasteless. An hour too late and they are cunting past their best.

oh 100
how irritating

Huuuuuge bowl of salad,little gem,watercress,spinach,avocado,spring onion,tomato,cucumber,carrot,yellow pepper,chickpeas,beetroot....followed by an enormous pile of orange & ricotta pancakes

Oh Boco PLEASE tell more about the rules and the woman being strict and everything.
MrsC if this is a limited edition it is staying put right here on my windowsill. I was very slowly weaning myself off it and planning to take it to the group for the babies to chew, but they jolly well do without it.

the thatching is v funny

we have vegan for dinner so no pancakes, hence ds and I ate some in cafe in town this afternoon. They had lemon on. That counts.

Pssst Franny, Boco got told off for being rude about another person's felting. She did, honest, she did [jumps up and down] But rude in a nice way, in a jokey way. But she was told off. She was, she was, she told me.

oh please Boco come and tell EVERYONE don't just whisper in the corner to 100

[pulls up socks, smiles smugly, chews pigtail]

My last word on the thatching is that the whole experience was very sobering, because ds1 came back and told me about it last night. And he was LAUGHING at me.

He looked at me over the top of his specs and said 'Weeeel, Mum, there was thatching' and sort of nodded and put his head on one side. And then he said 'And someone had made a tudor house cake. And X had done wattle and daub on the walls.'

And then he nodded at me a bit more.

It's a bit much when your 10 y-o thinks you are an arse isn't it? DS2 laughed and said 'Eyes on the prize! Eyes on the prize' at me and then they BOTH laughed.

I am clearly absurd.

[goes to find this lighting thing that MrsC has seen in the past. Starts planning My Garden on a Plate for July]

Sorry 100x but I am chuckling along with them

What has Boco been up to with the felting?

Tiger you were fab on the getting to school on time thread

Lionheart did you see Mozza the other night on tv?

I hope everyone is alright

Yes, I did.

Oh lord

I am so uncreative, I will fail DS miserably.

Aha..

I will rope in DH, he will be happy to throw down the gauntlet to any other competetive Dads, I dare say, and he's much better at things like that than I am

DS has been choosing who to invite to his party and refuses to invite any girls ..we have invited 7 boys, and I think have to make a racing car cake

What shall I do with 8 4yr old boys please, especially if it rains?

LL you know while you were away, no-one ate any f&v at all. Now you are back, we all cringe with could-do-betterness at your wonderful lists of abundance, and eat satsumas.

Actually, I lie, Zippi did eat lots.

Thanks Tatties Other people's assumptions do piss me off somewhat, although I'm sure I'm guilty of doing the same.

I would be completely clueless when it comes to building projects but my Mum is a master of it so I would have to call on her expertise.

8 4yr old boys... well dd will be 4 before I know it and I think if I were stuck indoors with her and 7 of her mates it would have to be traditional party games - pass the parcel, musical statues, musical bumps etc. And disco dancing. Not sure that would work with boys though

do none of you know any good poems i can recite at my friend's soiree?? I am wattle-and-daubing myself and wishing I had never agreed.

Do you really want to know about felting? I'm doing it with a group of six friends - its free and there's a creche and we all have small children so it's nice to do something without interruption. But the tutor is really strict and stern. On the first day we had to stand around a flip chart and agree on the group rules, which include being respectful of each other and our work. So when i mentioned that friends felting looked like big ginger roadkill, that was frowned upon, as it wasn't really showing respect.

And she makes me snort in a schoolgirl way every time she talks about gussets. And today we did bead looming, and friend was staring at my beadwork, and i said 'don't copy me!' and she said 'why would i want to copy you!' and i said 'because mine is the BEST and you know it!', and tutor gave me raised eyebrows and severe look. and we both giggled quietly into our beadwork. We're both in our 30's fgs, but I think she thinks i'm 13, and it makes me 13.
And she suggested that I make a felted clutch bag for evening wear and a felt bead necklace to go with it and I did teenage 'yeah, like, well stylish. NOt' But quietly.

Did you chew gum? Did you text under the table when she wasn't looking? Smoke a ciggy out the window?

Must do better, Boco.

Did it really look like dead Bagpuss?

I made a suggestion, FMV.