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

oh Tatties I AM so proud

Oh superb! Ds is also doing some massive tantrums atm

am eating dark chocolate salted liquid caramels..lots of

franny...no....I am glum because he is in Devon amongst people I love & I am here with a cold & all the crap to deal with.
And he is staying with his ex & rung me from outside so that she would not hear & be upset
yee gods....what am I doing with my life?

hmmmm...ds has been having quite stupendously outrageous tantrums lately...I have resorted to a star chart....Sunday is reward day when he can choose what we do with our day..weather & funds permitting.Seems to be working

Tatties lol at ds & bravo
ds says it is his favourite too...tho when he mentioned it at nursery as being his best breakfast ,it was met with very blank stares

perhaps I should be giving him cocoa pops or something?

I'll stop talking to myself & go & play someone with a foot fetish on scrabulous

Oh Lully at dh staying with ex and sneaking out to ring you

god you know how much I love that man

[presses nose] Parp.

LOL. Yes I did mean to delete it. But there's something rather touching about the fact that I wanted to let off steam, and so came to create a post I thought I'd delete here. Isn't that nice?

It's like being a moody teenager but being pleased and secure about being a moody teenager at home.

Oh the Brownies were fab, it was very funny. I gave them (all 26 of them) a talk about illustration and handed round pictures and showed them drawings and sketchbooks, and then it was question time, and Brown Owl said, ask Boco questions about being an illustrator - and they all put their hands up and said 'ooh oooh, pick me!' and the first question was
'Do you have a lucky number, and if so, what is it"
followed by
how old are you?
if you could change anything in the world, what would it be, and would it be war?
Have you ever drawn actual icecream, and if so, what flavour?
How old are your children?
Can you draw me a horse?
And then some things that weren't actually questions like 'my mum's had four kids miss'

I felt like an 80's pop star on saturday morning TV, it was fantastic.

i sometimes feel that mn is becoming more weirdly polarised

i don't understand it really...

i have had some more of my nutty bread

an organic very large rumps teak

sweetheart cabbage a lot of

two kiwis and two apples and a banana i think

as well as my brekkie

oh and a orange and mango juice with that spatone stuff in it

i bought some converse pumps in the sale for 15 quid they are white with pink and red on the back

i also bought some skinny leg jeans and two te shirts and a necklace

GOALGOALGOALGOAL

why the at the clothes purchases, Zippi, they sound fab? Good food.

Boco - that sounds like fun. I loved brownies, I still have some of my badges. One of my mums boyfriends used to drop me off and he'd put his hand to his head and say, 'how now, brown owl'. I hated it.

HAVE you ever drawn actual ice cream, Boco?

100 a while back I was saying I needed to cut down on MN and everyone as saying "oh but you are hardly ever here". Well I worked out a lot of the time I was just reading contentious or annoying threads, composing posts and then deleting them. Because they were too arsey, or too honest, or too unpopular, or something. I can't help feeling it is one of the more spectacular wastes of time I have devised in my life.

was it the Office sale Zippi? My friend has bought loads of fab shoes in the Office sale and i keep forgetting to go

did anyone see Dolcis has gone into receivership? I was mildly traumatised by this.

it was a shop called cube

i could have got black ones with sort of brown spotty buits on the back which would have been my mnormal choice but picked the white ones theyw ere reduced from 40 quid.. i nearly bought both lol

er the is because i am spending money all the time in a unrpentant fashion

the weekend is going to cost me a small fortune i suspect

but i am very excited about it i am seeing uni friends (uni first time aroudn) on friday night and then having my London wekend with mon ami

Brownies have made me how funny Boco

LL that does sound a bit gloomy, can;t you plan your own trip soon? WE are waiting to hear where DS has a school place. Our two nearest schools are oversubscribed x 3, but we live close so I am assuming he will get a place at one or the other....well I'm trying not to think about it too much at the moment, tbh.

Tatties hope DS has gone to bed OK tonight following his nap...DS fell asleep too today which is pretty rare these days. I had to carry him in from the car, I'm sure he weighs about 3 stone

Franny I like "sad as a dog".

We get "you have killed me. I am dead", as he prostrates himself dramatically on teh floor.

I love the Brownies, and I LOL at you being on swap shop or something. Very good.

Your things sound good Zipp.

I does seem polarized I think, or at least defensive all the time. But then not all the time I suppose. [presses nose]

i feel more and more like an old hippy on here because people seem so very focussed on their own ways to the exclusion of anyone elses

anyway it will help me cut down on psoting as i am feeling that i don't want to which is probably a good thing

I am always spending ages composing posts and then deleting them and then poking myself in the eye at the time wasting. I hadn't really thought about anyone else doing this.

When I got back from my run, DD ran into the street and threw her hands up towards the starry sky and proclaimed that the sun had exploded into a thousand pieces. She tends towards the dramatic like her mother.

oh darn it zippi your posts have been so needed lately

Hmm. It makes me feel like a moody teenager. One minute I'm saying there are no absolutes in parenting, and then the next I'm accusing perfectly nice benign people of being superior and then the next I'm asking everyone to show me their knickers.

I did the knicker thing yesterday.

I know what you mean though. When I start picking fights I tend to think it's time to step away for a while.

Show us your knickers Zip.

See - it slipped out again. Must be the hormones.

she probably isn't wearing any, as usual

You lot

Just rembered something that has pained me today (besides shoulder)

We joined Lovefilm this week as we are going to get back into watching a film once a week.

Was to discover today that the bloody DVDs came via Tesco DVD rental

[snurks]

Rolls up sleeves.

Who wants to arm-wrestle and discuss parenting philosophies?

actually its probably just the old bit that is relevant

you just come to realise if you didn't to start with that life is not quite as clear cut and controllable as you imagine

best alid plans and all that

i especially think this about controlling other people including growing children...they may just have minds of their own..that may even be a good thing